Increased plasma lipoprotein(a) found in large-artery atherosclerotic, but not small-artery occlusive, stroke

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1888-1890

  Jones, Gregory T ^a,b   Deng, Meiying ^a   Hammond Tooke, Graeme D ^a   McCormick, Sally P A ^a   Van Rij, Andre M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LIPOPROTEIN A;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTERY DIAMETER; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEIN(A); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE;

EID: 70349696265     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2009.126771     Document Type: Letter

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