Lipid-lowering with atorvastatin improves tissue characteristics of carotid plaque [2]

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 369-371

  Katakami, Naoto ^a   Sakamoto, Ken'ya ^a   Kaneto, Hideaki ^a   Matsuhisa, Munehide ^a   Hori, Masatsugu ^a   Yamasaki, Yoshimitsu ^a   Kosugi, Keisuke ^b   Waki, Hidehiko ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ATORVASTATIN; BEZAFIBRATE; PROBUCOL;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPTANOIC ACIDS; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYRROLES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27644490622     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2005.08.011     Document Type: Letter

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