Smoking, fasting serum insulin, and obesity are the predictors of carotid atherosclerosis in relatively young subjects

Angiology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 677-684

  Naya, Takayuki ^a   Hosomi, Naohisa ^a   Ohyama, Hideo ^a,b   Ichihara, Shin Ichiro ^a,b   Ban, Camelia R ^a   Takahashi, Tsutomu ^a   Taminato, Tomohiko ^a   Feng, Anne ^c   Kohno, Masakazu ^a   Koziol, James A ^c  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Sanatorium   (Japan)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ADULT; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; BODY MASS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OBESITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; BODY MASS INDEX; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; COHORT STUDIES; CREATININE; FASTING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERINSULINISM; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 37849038853     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319707303589     Document Type: Article

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