Retinal microvascular abnormalities and MRI-defined subclinical cerebral infarction: The atherosclerosis risk in communities study

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 82-86

  Cooper, Lawton S ^a   Wong, Tien Y ^b,c   Klein, Ronald ^d   Sharrett, A Richey ^e   Bryan, R Nick ^f   Hubbard, Larry D ^d   Couper, David J ^g   Heiss, Gerardo ^g   Sorlie, Paul D ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Cerebrovascular disorders; Hypertension; Retinal artery; Retinal blood vessels; Stroke

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BODY MASS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXUDATE; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MICROANEURYSM; MICROANGIOPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; UNITED STATES; VENULE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINA; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA DISEASE; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL VESSELS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33644875162     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000195134.04355.e5     Document Type: Article

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