Increased Intima Media Thickness and Atherosclerotic Plaques in the Carotid Artery as Risk Factors for Silent Brain Infarcts

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 14-20

  Inoue, Kazuo ^a   Matsumoto, Masatoshi ^b   Shono, Teiji ^a   Toyokawa, Satoshi ^a   Moriki, Akihito ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Mominoki Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotid plaque; intima media thickness; Japan; magnetic resonance imaging; silent infarction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTIMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SILENT BRAIN INFARCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 33846040784     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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