Distribution of a subclinical marker of cardiovascular risk, the ankle brachial index, in a rural African population: Saspi study

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 964-969

  Fowkes, F Gerry R ^a   Thorogood, Margaret ^b   Connor, Myles D ^c   Lewando Hundt, Gillian ^b   Tzoulaki, Ioanna ^a   Tollman, Stephen M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

ankle brachial index; cardiovascular disease; cross sectional survey; peripheral arterial disease; rural; South Africa; sub Saharan Africa; subclinical

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; SOUTH AFRICA; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 33845420628     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: 20474881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.hjr.0000201511.28590.9f     Document Type: Article

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