Atorvastatin improves arterial stiffness in normotensive normolipidaemic persons with type 2 diabetes

Journal of the Indian Medical Association

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 716-719

  Mukherjee, Sarmistha ^a,b   Mukhopadhyay, Pradip ^a   Pandit, Kaushik ^a   Mukherjee, Satinath ^a   Chowdhury, Subhankar ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b BR Singh Hosp   (India)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Atorvastatin; Brachial ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV); Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ATORVASTATIN; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PLACEBO; HEPTANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID URINE LEVEL; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOMATION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE URINE LEVEL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OSCILLOMETRY; PULSE WAVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX RATIO; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT DURATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; ANKLE; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; DRUG EFFECT; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HEPTANOIC ACIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; PYRROLES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65449150163     PISSN: 00195847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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