Cardiovascular risk assessment in individual patients from carotid intimal-medial thickness measurements

Current Atherosclerosis Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 225-231

  Riley, Ward A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 3142523589     PISSN: 15233804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11883-004-0036-3     Document Type: Review

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