Clustering of several cardiovascular risk factors affects tissue characteristics of the carotid artery

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 208-213

  Katakami, Naoto ^a,b   Kaneto, Hideaki ^a   Matsuhisa, Munehide ^a   Umayahara, Yutaka ^b   Kosugi, Keisuke ^b   Yamasaki, Yoshimitsu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Integrated backscatter; Intima media thickness; Metabolic syndrome; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CALIBRATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL DETECTION;

AGED; CALIBRATION; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 40949111499     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2007.08.022     Document Type: Article

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