Lipid management and peripheral arterial Disease

Current Drug Targets

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 561-570

  Daskalopoulou, S S ^a,b   Daskalopoulos, M E ^b   Mikhailidis, D P ^c   Liapis, C D ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dyslipidemia; Lipid lowering; Peripheral arterial disease; Prevention; Risk factors; Statins

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ATORVASTATIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BEZAFIBRATE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; COLESTIPOL; COLESTYRAMINE; CYSTATIN C; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; EZETIMIBE; FENOFIBRATE; FIBRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FIBRINOGEN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; NICOTINIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; PLACEBO; PRAVASTATIN; PROTHROMBIN; SIMVASTATIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VITAMIN;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIET THERAPY; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SMOKING CESSATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VASCULAR SURGERY;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 34247613463     PISSN: 13894501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138945007780362737     Document Type: Review

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