Cardiovascular risk factors and specific coronary artery calcification in postmenopausal women

Journal of Tehran University Heart Center

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 171-176

  Sabour, Siamak ^a,b   Bartelink, Marie Louise ^a   Rutten, Annemarieke ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^a   Prokop, Mathias ^a   Van Der Schouw, Yvonne T ^a   Bots, Michiel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Calcification, physiologic; Cardiovascular diseases; Postmenopause; Women

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 77953447001     PISSN: 17358620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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