The role of ankle-brachial index as a screening test for coronary artery disease in the hispanic population

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1117-1120

  Enoch, Agunanne ^a,b   Ijeoma, Agunanne ^c  

^a Del Sol Medical Center   (United States)

^b SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Ankle brachial index; Arteries; Atherosclerosis; Blood pressure; Coronary artery disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; CLASSIFICATION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TEXAS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 58149355286     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e318189aabc     Document Type: Article

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