Diagonal ear-lobe crease is correlated with atherosclerotic changes in carotid arteries

Circulation Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1945-1949

  Shrestha, Isha ^a   Ohtsuki, Toshiho ^a   Takahashi, Tetsuya ^a   Nomura, Eiichi ^b   Kohriyama, Tatsuo ^a   Matsumoto, Masayasu ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Suiseikai Kajikawa Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid intima media thickness; Diagonal ear lobe crease; Plaque score

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGONAL EAR LOBE CREASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; EAR LOBE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; THICKNESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EAR, EXTERNAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 70349869218     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-09-0141     Document Type: Article

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