Risk Factor Treatment in Veteran Women at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease1

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-180

  Canter, Debra L ^a   Atkins, Marvin D ^b   McNeal, Catherine J ^b   Bush, Ruth L ^b  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiovascular disease; risk factors; veterans; women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE MARKER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FRAMINGHAM CARDIOVASCULAR RISK SCORE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SMOKING; STROKE; VETERAN;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TEXAS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; VETERANS;

EID: 70450228879     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2008.07.014     Document Type: Article

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