Common carotid artery intima-media thickness and the risk of stroke recurrence

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1913-1916

  Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a,c   Vemmos, Konstantinos ^b   Papamichael, Christos ^b   Spengos, Konstantinos ^a   Manios, Efstathios ^b   Stamatelopoulos, Kimon ^b   Vassilopoulos, Demetrios ^a   Zakopoulos, Nikolaos ^b  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid arteries; Recurrence; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; ACUTE DISEASE; AGE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; GREECE; HYPERPLASIA; INTIMA; LIFE TABLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICS; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREECE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; RISK; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 33745938181     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000226399.13528.0a     Document Type: Article

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