The effect of age and other atherosclerotic risk factors on carotid artery blood velocity in individuals ranging from young adults to centenarians

Angiology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 637-643

  Homma, Satoki ^a   Sloop, Gregory D ^b   Zieske, Arthur W ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Blood flow velocity; Blood pressure; Carotid ultrasound; Intima media thickness

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY FLOW; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THROMBOGENESIS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350513898     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319708325447     Document Type: Article

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