Intima-media thickness: A marker of accelerated atherosclerosis in women with systemic lupus erythematosus

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1108, Issue , 2007, Pages 121-126

  Colombo, Barbara Maria ^a,b   Murdaca, Giuseppe ^a   Caiti, Matteo ^a   Rodriguez, Guido ^b   Grassia, Lidia ^c   Rossi, Edorado ^c   Indiveri, Francesco ^a   Puppo, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accelerated atherosclerosis; Framingham Point Score; IMT; Intima media thickness; SLE; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

EID: 34948901886     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1422.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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