Significant associations of metabolic syndrome and its components with silent lacunar infarction in middle aged subjects

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 719-721

  Park, K ^a   Yasuda, N ^a   Toyonaga, S ^a   Tsubosaki, E ^b   Nakabayashi, H ^a   Shimizu, K ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Kochi Healthcare Centre   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILENT LACUNAR INFARCTION; SMOKING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 44449174072     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2007.134809     Document Type: Article

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