Relationship Between the Number of Coronary Risk Factors and Coronary Atherosclerosis Assessed by High-frequency Transthoracic Echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1056-1062

  Takeuchi, Masaaki ^a   Yoshitani, Hidetoshi ^a   Miyazaki, Chinami ^a   Yoshikawa, Junichi ^a,b  

^a University of Occupational and Environmental Health   (Japan)

^b Osaka Ekisaikai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33746371372     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.03.030     Document Type: Article

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