Interrelationship between noninvasive predictors of atherosclerosis: Transthoracic coronary flow reserve, flow-mediated dilation, carotid intima-media thickness, aortic stiffness, aortic distensibility, elastic modulus, and brachial artery diameter

Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 835-842

  Gullu, Hakan ^a   Erdogan, Dogan ^a   Caliskan, Mustafa ^a   Tok, Derya ^a   Yildirim, Erkan ^a   Ulus, Taner ^a   Turan Sezgin, Alpay ^a   Muderrisoglu, Haldun ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis surrogates; Brachial artery diameter; Coronary flow reserve; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY RISK; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; VASODILATATION; YOUNG MODULUS;

ADULT; AORTA, THORACIC; ARTERIES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATION;

EID: 33750373856     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2006.00342.x     Document Type: Article

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