Are retinal arteriolar or venular diameters associated with markers for cardiovascular disorders? The Rotterdam study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2129-2134

  Ikram, M Kamran ^a   De Jong, Frank Jan ^a   Vingerling, Johannes R ^a   Witteman, Jacqueline C M ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Breteler, Monique M B ^a   De Jong, Paulus T V M ^a,b,c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA VEIN; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; THICKNESS; VEIN DIAMETER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOLES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; VENULES;

EID: 3142616795     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-1390     Document Type: Article

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