South Asian men have different patterns of coronary artery disease when compared with European men

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 406-413

  Tillin, Therese ^a   Dhutia, Harshil ^a   Chambers, John ^a   Malik, Iqbal ^a   Coady, Emma ^a   Mayet, Jamil ^a   Wright, Andrew R ^a   Kooner, Jaspal ^a   Shore, Angela ^b   Thom, Simon ^a   Chaturvedi, Nish ^a   Hughes, Alun ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary artery disease; Coronary calcification; South Asian; Vascular remodelling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIET RESTRICTION; ETHNICITY; EUROPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUTH ASIA; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

AGED; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 52949091094     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.07.129     Document Type: Article

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