Spatial inhomogeneity of common carotid artery intima-media is increased in dialysis patients

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1205-1212

  Hermans, Marc M H ^a   Kooman, Jeroen P ^a   Brandenburg, Vincent ^b   Ketteler, Markus ^b   Damoiseaux, Jan G M C ^a   Cohen Tervaert, Jan W ^a   Ferreira, Isabel ^a   Rensma, Pieter L ^c   Gladziwa, Ulrich ^d   Kroon, Abraham A ^a   Hoeks, Arnold P G ^e   Stehouwer, Coen D A ^a   Leunissen, Karel M L ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c CPRLab   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Calcification; Cardiovascular risk factors; Carotid wall intima medial thickness; Dialysis patients; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM; FETUIN; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHATE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY HEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; BLOOD PROTEINS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 34047166970     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl750     Document Type: Article

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