Low bone mineral density is related to echogenic carotid artery plaques: A population-based study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 160, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 549-556

  Jørgensen, Lone ^a,b   Joakimsen, Oddmund ^a,b   Berntsen, Gro K Rosvold ^a   Heuch, Ivar ^c   Jacobsen, Bjarne K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arteriosclerosis; Bone density; Calcification, physiologic; Carotid arteries; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWAY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BONE DENSITY; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; OSTEOPOROSIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 4544363343     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwh252     Document Type: Article

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