Unfavorable blood rheology is closely associated with arterial stiffness in obese patients

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 915-918

  Satoh, Noriko ^a   Kotani, Kazuhiko ^a,b   Wada, Hiromichi ^a   Himeno, Akihiro ^a   Shimada, Sayaka ^a   Sasaki, Yousuke ^a   Yamada, Kazunori ^a   Shimatsu, Akira ^a   Hasegawa, Koji ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYOTO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Blood rheology; Cardiovascular disease risk; Metabolic syndrome; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BODY MASS; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; PULSE WAVE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PULSATILE FLOW; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 70350637508     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.K09E-167     Document Type: Article

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