The role of ankle brachial index and carotid intima-media thickness in vascular risk stratification

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 394-398

  Tziomalos, Konstantinos ^a   Athyros, Vasilios G ^a   Karagiannis, Asterios ^a   Mikhailidis, Dimitri P ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ankle brachial index; carotid intima media thickness; Framingham risk score; peripheral arterial disease; vascular risk prediction

Indexed keywords

ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE MARKER; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; VALIDITY;

ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 77953808268     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HCO.0b013e328338c109     Document Type: Review

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