Association of breast arterial calcification and carotid intima-media thickness

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 376-382

  Yildiz, Sema ^a,b   Yildiz, Ali ^a   Ertug, Nesrin ^b   Kaya, Ihsan ^a   Yilmaz, Remzi ^a   Yuksel, Enis ^b   Ziylan, Salih Zeki ^a  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Breast arterial calcification; Carotid intima media thickness; Mammography; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BREAST; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PROGNOSIS; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 57049105781     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-008-1058-5     Document Type: Article

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