Advanced coronary artery calcification and cerebral small vessel diseases in the healthy elderly

Circulation Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 451-456

  Kim, Beom Joon ^a   Lee, Seung Hoon ^a   Kim, Chi Kyung ^a   Ryu, Wi Sun ^a   Kwon, Hyung Min ^b   Choi, Su Yeon ^c   Yoon, Byung Woo ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Boramae Hospital   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cerebral microbleeds; Cerebral small vessel disease; Coronary artery calcification; Silent lacunar infarction; White matter lesion

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; WHITE MATTER;

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: 79251567382     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-10-0762     Document Type: Article

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