Homocysteine and carotid intima-media thickness in a German population: Lack of clinical relevance

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2840-2842

  Linnebank, Michael ^a   Moskau, Susanna ^a   Farmand, Susan ^a   Fliessbach, Klaus ^a   Kölsch, Heike ^a   Bös, Monika ^a   Grothe, Christoph ^a   Becker, Dietmar ^a   Harbrecht, Ursula ^a   Pohl, Christoph ^a   Wüllner, Ullrich ^a   Klockgether, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carotid intima media thickness; Carotid ultrasound; Genetics; Homocysteinemia; Stroke

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; THICKNESS; BLOOD; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; INTIMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; TUNICA MEDIA;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 33750951720     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000244764.02851.d3     Document Type: Article

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