The relationships of markers of cholesterol homeostasis with carotid intima-media thickness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Weingärtner, Oliver ^a   Pinsdorf, Tobias ^b   Rogacev, Kyrill S ^a   Blömer, Lutz ^a   Grenner, Yvonne ^a   Gräber, Stefan ^a   Ulrich, Christof ^a   Girndt, Matthias ^a   Böhm, Michael ^a   Fliser, Danilo ^a   Laufs, Ulrich ^a   Lütjohann, Dieter ^b   Heine, Gunnar H ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMPESTEROL; LATHOSTEROL; PHYTOSTEROL; CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL ABSORPTION; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LIPID ABSORPTION; LIVER METABOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; AGED; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; HOMEOSTASIS; INTIMA; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; CHOLESTEROL; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 78149422524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013467     Document Type: Article

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