The relationships of cardiovascular disease risk factors to flow-mediated dilatation in Japanese subjects free of cardiovascular disease

Hypertension Research

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2019-2025

  Tomiyama, Hirofumi ^a   Matsumoto, Chisa ^a   Yamada, Jiko ^a   Teramoto, Takanori ^b   Abe, Keiichi ^b   Ohta, Hiromi ^b   Kiso, Yoshinobu ^b   Kawauchi, Takashi ^c   Yamashina, Akira ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SUNTORY LTD   (Japan)

^c Toda Chuo General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE MARKER; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; FLOW MEDIATED DILATATION; FRAMINGHAM RISK POINTS SCORE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; JAPANESE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; BLOOD FLOW; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK FACTORS; VASODILATION;

EID: 58849128609     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.31.2019     Document Type: Article

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