Differences in Atherosclerotic Profiles Between Patients With Thoracic and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 696-699

  Ito, Shin ^a   Akutsu, Koichi ^a   Tamori, Yuiichi ^a   Sakamoto, Shingo ^a   Yoshimuta, Tsuyoshi ^a   Hashimoto, Hideki ^b   Takeshita, Satoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BODY MASS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; COMPARATIVE STUDY;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BODY MASS INDEX; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 41949111441     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.10.039     Document Type: Article

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