Association between risk factors and carotid enlargement

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 503-509

  Kawamoto, Ryuichi ^a   Tomita, Hitomi ^a   Oka, Yuichiro ^a   Ohtsuka, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a Nomura Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Atherosclerosis; Carotid enlargement; Common carotid artery; Intima media thickness

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; URIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; B SCAN; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERURICEMIA; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; URIC ACID;

EID: 33646764948     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1575     Document Type: Article

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