Clustering of risk factors increases the incidence of echolucent carotid plaque in stroke patients

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 432-438

  Yamashiro, Kazuo ^a   Watanabe, Terubumi ^a   Tanaka, Ryota ^a   Komine Kobayashi, Miki ^a   Mizuno, Yoshikuni ^a   Urabe, Takao ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid arteries; Risk factors; Stroke; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROKE; THROMBOSIS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33750594291     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000094996     Document Type: Article

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