Changes in Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery Wall Thickness Detected by High Resolution Transthoracic Echocardiography

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 937-940

  Perry, Rebecca ^a   De Pasquale, Carmine G ^a   Chew, Derek P ^a   Brown, Lynn ^a   Aylward, Philip E ^a   Joseph, Majo X ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 40949129627     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.11.053     Document Type: Article

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