Associations of brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity and carotid atherosclerotic lesions with silent cerebral lesions

Hypertension Research

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 767-773

  Matsumoto, Masatoshi ^a   Inoue, Kazuo ^b   Moriki, Akihito ^c  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Mominoki Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Brachial ankle pulse wave velocity; Magnetic resonance angiography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE BRACHIAL PULSE WAVE; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; B SCAN; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PREDICTION; PULSE WAVE; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSE;

EID: 35348848492     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.30.767     Document Type: Article

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