Association of breast artery calcification with coronary artery disease and carotid intima-media thickness in premenopausal women

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1474-1482

  Sarrafzadegann, N ^a   Ashrafi, F ^a   Noorbakhsh, M ^a   Haghighi, M ^a   Sadeghi, M ^a   Mazaheri, F ^a   Asgari, S ^a   Akhavan, A ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PREMENOPAUSE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 75449095848     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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