Incremental predictive value of carotid intima-media thickness to arterial stiffness for impaired coronary flow reserve in untreated hypertensives

Hypertension Research

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 367-373

  Tzortzis, Stavros ^a   Ikonomidis, Ignatios ^a   Lekakis, John ^a   Papadopoulos, Costas ^a   Triantafyllidi, Helen ^a   Parissis, John ^a   Trivilou, Paraskevi ^a   Paraskevaidis, Ioannis ^a   Anastasiou Nana, Maria ^a   Kremastinos, D T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coronary flow reserve; Intima media thickness; Pulse wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PULSE WAVE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIES; COMPLIANCE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIOVASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 77950508444     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: 13484214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hr.2010.2     Document Type: Article

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