Atherosclerosis and abdominal aortic aneurysm: Cause, response, or common risk factors?

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1075-1077

  Golledge, Jonathan ^a   Norman, Paul E ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC RISK; HEMODYNAMIC STRESS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SHEAR STRESS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77952861302     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.110.206573     Document Type: Editorial

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