Resonance-thrombography indices of the haemostatic process in relation to risk of incident coronary heart disease: 9 Years follow-up in the Caerphilly Propective Heart Disease Study

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 385-391

  Yu, Shicheng ^a   Lowe, Gordon D O ^b   Yarnell, John W G ^a   Sweetnam, Peter M ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood coagulation; Coronary heart disease; Fibrinogen; Prospective study; Resonance thrombography

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RESONANCE THROMBOGRAPHY; RISK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM; VISCOSITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BLOOD COAGULATION FACTORS; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; CORONARY DISEASE; FIBRIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; WALES;

EID: 3442886896     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2004.05054.x     Document Type: Article

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