Aortic elasticity is impaired in patients with endemic fluorosis

Biological Trace Element Research

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 121-127

  Varol, Ercan ^a,b   Akcay, Selahattin ^a   Ersoy, I Hakki ^a   Ozaydin, Mehmet ^a   Koroglu, Banu Kale ^a   Varol, Simge ^b  

^a SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aortic stiffness; Echocardiography; Endemic fluorosis

Indexed keywords

FLUORIDE;

ADULT; AORTA; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FLUOROSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; ANIMAL; AORTA DISEASE; CALCINOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; TOOTH DISEASE; URINE; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FLUORIDES; FLUOROSIS, DENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77950058464     PISSN: 01634984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12011-009-8578-4     Document Type: Article

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