The relationship between leptin:adiponectin ratio and carotid intima-media thickness in asymptomatic females

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Kotani, Kazuhiko ^a   Shimohiro, Hisashi ^b   Sakane, Naoki ^c  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYOTO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; IMMUNOREACTIVE INSULIN; LEPTIN; ADIPONECTIN, HUMAN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BODY MASS; CAROTID INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LETTER; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THICKNESS; AGED; BLOOD; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; INTIMA; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; TUNICA MEDIA;

ADIPONECTIN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MIDDLE AGED; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 39349110540     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.505669     Document Type: Letter

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