Carotid artery intima media thickness is inversely related to serum free thyroxine in euthyroid subjects

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 668-673

  Dullaart, Robin P F ^a   De Vries, Rindert ^a   Roozendaal, Carolien ^a   Kobold, Anneke C Muller ^a   Sluiter, Wim J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; LIPID; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULSE PRESSURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOANTIBODIES; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CAROTID ARTERIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LINEAR MODELS; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 35448966152     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.02943.x     Document Type: Article

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