Augmentation Index and Large-Artery Remodeling in Patients with Longstanding Rheumatoid Arthritis Compared with Healthy Controls

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 163-169

  Pieringer, Herwig ^a   Schumacher, Sabine ^a   Stuby, Ulrike ^a   Biesenbach, Georg ^a,b  

^a KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

augmentation index; intima media thickness; large artery remodeling; rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUGMENTATION INDEX; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 70449673521     PISSN: 00490172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2008.08.005     Document Type: Review

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