On the paradox of exercise: Coronary atherosclerosis in an apparently healthy marathon runner

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 396-401

  Möhlenkamp, Stefan ^a   Böse, Dirk ^a   Mahabadi, Amir Abbas ^b   Heusch, Gerd ^b   Erbel, Raimund ^a  

^a West German Cancer Center   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATORVASTATIN; CALCIUM; RAMIPRIL; RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; ATHLETE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; COMPETITION; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG ELUTING STENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; GUIDE WIRE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUNNING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GENETICS; HEART INFARCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RUNNING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 34250836337     PISSN: 17434297     EISSN: 17434300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpcardio0926     Document Type: Article

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