Are Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) Patients at Increased Risk for Atherosclerosis? Impaired Endothelial Function and Increased Intima Media Thickness Are Found in FMF

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2351-2353

  Akdogan, Ali ^a   Calguneri, Meral ^a   Yavuz, Bunyamin ^a   Arslan, E Bengi ^a   Kalyoncu, Umut ^a   Sahiner, Levent ^a   Karadag, Omer ^a   Ertenli, Ihsan ^a   Kiraz, Sedat ^a   Aytemir, Kudret ^a   Akata, Deniz ^a   Tokgozoglu, Lale ^a   Oto, Ali ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE;

ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 33845214759     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.09.013     Document Type: Letter

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