Calf circumference is inversely associated with carotid plaques

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2958-2965

  Debette, Stéphanie ^a,b   Leone, Nathalie ^a   Courbon, Dominique ^a   Gariépy, Jérôme ^c   Tzourio, Christophe ^a   Dartigues, Jean François ^a   Ritchie, Karen ^a   Alpérovitch, Annick ^a   Ducimetière, Pierre ^a   Amouyel, Philippe ^a   Zureik, Mahmoud ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c HÔPITAL BROUSSAIS   (France)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid artery; Carotid intimal medial thickness; Epidemiology; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; AGE DETERMINATION; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CALF CIRCUMFERENCE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID PLAQUE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DETERMINATION; ULTRASOUND; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; LEG; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 55749115092     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.520106     Document Type: Article

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