Patients with aortic valve stenosis and Type 2 diabetes have similar coronary flow reserve and aortic distensibility compared with non-diabetic patients with aortic valve stenosis

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 159-160

  Nemes, Attila ^a   Forster, Tamás ^a   Csanády, Miklós ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROCIRCULATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREDICTION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; YOUNG MODULUS;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 34247241701     PISSN: 01688227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2006.10.022     Document Type: Letter

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