Cardiovascular risk assessment through target organ damage: Role of carotid to femoral pulse wave velocity

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 530-533

  Boutouyrie, Pierre ^a,b   Vermersch, Sebastian ^a   Laurent, Stéphane ^a,b   Briet, Marie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

Aorta; Artery; Cardiovascular risk; Epidemiology; Mortality; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY FLOW; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMORAL ARTERY FLOW; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PULSE WAVE; SMOKING;

AGING; AORTA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 40149089573     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2008.04911.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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