Associations between augmentation index and severity of atheroma or aortic stiffness of the descending thoracic aorta by transesophageal echocardiography

Circulation Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1151-1156

  Sako, Hideto ^a   Miura, Shin Ichiro ^a   Kumagai, Koichiro ^a   Saku, Keijiro ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Augmentation index; Central arterial stiffness; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DESCENDING AORTA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; RADIAL ARTERY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 67649865288     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-08-0404     Document Type: Article

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