Common carotid artery wall thickness and external diameter as predictors of prevalent and incident cardiac events in a large population study

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Eigenbrodt, Marsha L ^a   Sukhija, Rishi ^b   Rose, Kathryn M ^c   Tracy, Richard E ^d   Couper, David J ^c   Evans, Gregory W ^e   Bursac, Zoran ^b   Mehta, Jawahar L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ARREST; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RACE; RISK FACTOR; ROC CURVE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ORGAN SIZE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947532899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-5-11     Document Type: Article

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