Increased Arterial Stiffness in Europeans and African Caribbeans With Type 2 Diabetes Cannot be Accounted for by Conventional Cardiovascular Risk Factors

American Journal of Hypertension

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 889-896

  Strain, W David ^a   Chaturvedi, Nish ^a   Dockery, Frances ^b   Shiff, Rebekah ^b   Shore, Angela C ^c   Bulpitt, Christopher J ^b   Rajkumar, Chakravathi ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African Caribbean; arterial stiffness; Ethnicity; pulse wave velocity; type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTERY TONE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RADIAL ARTERY; SEX RATIO;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANKLE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARIBBEAN REGION; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOREARM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PULSE; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 33846313989     PISSN: 08957061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjhyper.2006.01.009     Document Type: Article

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