Ankle-arm blood pressure index as a correlate of preclinical carotid atherosclerosis in elderly Japanese men

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 420-424

  Cui, Renzhe ^a   Kitamura, Akihiko ^b   Yamagishi, Kazumasa ^a   Tanigawa, Takeshi ^a   Imano, Hironori ^b   Ohira, Tetsuya ^b   Sato, Shinichi ^b   Shimamoto, Takashi ^b   Iso, Hiroyasu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ankle arm index; Carotid arteries; Cross sectional studies; Intima media thickness; Japanese

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; HUMAN; INTIMA; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING HABIT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; TIBIAL ARTERIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 30044450867     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2005.05.005     Document Type: Article

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