Availability of cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) as a screening tool for atherosclerosis

Circulation Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 304-308

  Kadota, Koichiro ^a   Takamura, Noboru ^a   Aoyagi, Kiyoshi ^a   Yamasaki, Hironori ^b   Usa, Toshiro ^a   Nakazato, Mio ^a   Maeda, Takahiro ^a   Wada, Mitsuhiro ^a   Nakashima, Ken Ichiro ^a   Abe, Koh ^a   Takeshima, Fuminao ^a   Ozono, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Cardio ankle vascular index (CAVI); Carotid intima media thickness (CIMT); Homocysteine (HCY)

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLESTEROL; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIO ANKLE VASCULAR INDEX; CAROTID ARTERY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTIMA; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SCREENING TEST; SEX RATIO; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TUNICA MEDIA;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANKLE; ARTERIES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHOLESTEROL; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PULSE; SEX FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 40949121082     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.72.304     Document Type: Article

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