Walking speed and subclinical atherosclerosis in healthy older adults: The Whitehall II study

Heart

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 380-384

  Hamer, Mark ^a   Kivimaki, Mika ^a   Lahiri, Avijit ^b   Yerramasu, Ajay ^b   Deanfield, John E ^c   Marmot, Michael G ^a   Steptoe, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; WALKING SPEED;

AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; WALKING;

EID: 77649198506     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2009.183350     Document Type: Article

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