Atherosclerosis imaging in multiple vascular beds-Enough heterogeneity to improve risk prediction?

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 261-263

  Tison, Geoffrey H ^a   Blaha, Michael J ^b   Nasir, Khurram ^b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal arotic calcification; Coronary artery calcification; Epidemiology; Outcomes; Subclinical atherosclerosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; AORTA VALVE; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; NOTE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGE FACTORS; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; CALCINOSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79151484286     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.10.014     Document Type: Note

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