Relation of Aortic Wall Thickness and Distensibility to Cardiovascular Risk Factors (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis [MESA])

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 491-496

  Malayeri, Ashkan A ^a   Natori, Shunsuke ^a   Bahrami, Hossein ^a   Bertoni, Alain G ^b   Kronmal, Richard ^c   Lima, João A C ^a   Bluemke, David A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CINERADIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORACIC AORTA; VASODILATATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50949098033     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.04.010     Document Type: Article

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