Can retinal changes predict coronary artery disease in elderly hypertensive patients presenting with angina?

American Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 617-621

  Shantha, Ghanshyam Palamaner Subash ^a   Srinivasan, Yadav ^a   Kumar, Anita A ^a   Salim, Shihas ^a   Prabakhar, Suhas ^a   Rajan, Anish George ^a   Muralidharan, T R ^a  

^a SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROALBUMINURIA; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOPATHY; SEX RATIO;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; RETINAL DISEASES; ROC CURVE; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953327358     PISSN: 07356757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2009.04.007     Document Type: Article

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