Impairment of coronary circulation by acute hyperhomocysteinemia in type 2 diabetic patients

Diabetes Care

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2055-2056

  Coppola, Antonino ^a   Astarita, Costantino ^b   Oliviero, Michele ^b   Fontana, Dario ^b   Picardi, Giuseppe ^b   Esposito, Katherine ^a   Marfella, Raffaele ^a   Coppola, Ludovico ^a   Giugliano, Dario ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b Ospedale S Maria della Misericordia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HOMOCYSTEINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMMUNOASSAY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 3343018965     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.27.8.2055     Document Type: Article

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