Relationship between aortic calcification and stroke in a mass screening program using a mobile helical computed tomography unit

Circulation Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 733-736

  Itani, Yasutaka ^a,b   Watanabe, Shigeru ^a   Masuda, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a Japanese Society of CT Screening   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortic calcification; Cerebral infarction; Mass screening; Mobile helical CT

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; RISK FACTOR; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CALCINOSIS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33744484733     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.70.733     Document Type: Article

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