Relationship of sonographic wall components of the brachial artery to hypertension and coronary atherosclerosis

Vascular Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 185-190

  Frick, Matthias ^a   Alber, Hannes F ^a   Rinner, Alexander ^a   Suessenbacher, Alois ^a   Ulmer, Hanno ^a   Schwarzacher, Severin P ^a   Pachinger, Otmar ^a   Weidinger, Franz ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Brachial artery; Coronary artery disease; Hypertension; Medial thickness; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; VASODILATION;

EID: 26944445828     PISSN: 1358863X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1358863x05vm620oa     Document Type: Article

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