Ethnic differences in aortic valve thickness and related clinical factors

American Heart Journal

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 698-704

  Sashida, Yukiko ^a   Rodriguez, Carlos J ^a,b   Boden Albala, Bernadette ^a,b   Jin, Zhezhen ^b   Elkind, Mitchell S V ^a   Liu, Rui ^a   Rundek, Tatjana ^c   Sacco, Ralph L ^c   DiTullio, Marco R ^a   Homma, Shunichi ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; CALCIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; THICKNESS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77950137702     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2009.12.031     Document Type: Article

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