Relationship between aortic atherosclerosis and non-invasive measures of arterial stiffness

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Qureshi, Ghazanfar ^a   Brown, Richard ^a   Salciccioli, Louis ^a   Qureshi, Muhammed ^a   Rizvi, Syed ^a   Farhan, Sabina ^a   Lazar, Jason ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic atherosclerosis; Applanation tonometry; Arterial stiffness; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA INTIMA; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; RIGIDITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 36048959287     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2007.06.021     Document Type: Article

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