The relationship between flow-mediated dilatation of the brachial artery and intima-media thickness of the carotid artery to framingham risk scores in older African Americans

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 713-719

  Kwagyan, John ^a   Hussein, Saifudin ^a   Xu, Shichen ^a   Ketete, Muluemebet ^a   Maqbool, Abid R ^a   Schneider, Robert H ^a   Randall, Otelio S ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL CHOLESTEROL EDUCATION PROGRAM RISK SCORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; UNITED STATES; VASODILATION;

EID: 70849127668     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2009.00175.x     Document Type: Article

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