Coronary artery calcification and cerebral small vessel disease: Association of systemic atherosclerosis

Circulation Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 272-273

  Iijima, Katsuya ^a   Akishita, Masahiro ^a   Ouchi, Yasuyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; SMALL VESSEL DISEASE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCINOSIS; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 79251542683     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-10-1192     Document Type: Editorial

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