Relationship between carotid intima-media thickness and silent cerebral infarction in Japanese subjects with type 2 diabetes

Diabetes Care

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 168-170

  Nomura, Kazuhiro ^a   Hamamoto, Yoshiyuki ^b   Takahara, Shiho ^b   Kikuchi, Osamu ^a   Honjo, Sachiko ^a   Ikeda, Hiroki ^a   Wada, Yoshiharu ^a   Nabe, Koichro ^a   Okumra, Ryosuke ^a   Koshiyama, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a Kitano Hospital   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULSE WAVE; RISK FACTOR; SILENT CEREBRAL INFARCTION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 74249084724     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: 19355548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/dc09-0453     Document Type: Article

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