Echogenic carotid artery plaques are associated with vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women with low bone mass

Calcified Tissue International

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 411-417

  Kim, Se Hwa ^a   Kim, Yoo Mee ^b   Cho, Mi Ae ^c   Rhee, Yumie ^c   Hur, Kyu Yeon ^d   Kang, Eun Seok ^c,d   Cha, Bong Soo ^c,d   Lee, Eun Jig ^c,d   Lee, Hyun Chul ^c,d   Lim, Sung Kil ^c,d  

^a Kwandong University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b National Health Insurance Corporation   (South Korea)

^c Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bone mineral density; Carotid atherosclerosis; Echogenic plaque; Low bone mass; Vertebral fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKENING; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; B SCAN; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POSTMENOPAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRA FRACTURE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COMORBIDITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HIP; HYPERTENSION; INJURY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SPINE FRACTURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERTEBRA;

AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BONE DENSITY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; COMORBIDITY; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KOREA; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 55249103348     PISSN: 0171967X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00223-008-9141-6     Document Type: Article

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