Ethnic differences in common carotid intima-media thickness, and the relationship to cardiovascular risk factors and peripheral arterial disease: The Ethnic-Echocardiographic Heart of England Screening Study

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 245-254

  Bennett, P C ^a,b   Gill, P S ^a   Silverman, S ^b   Blann, A D ^a   Lip, G Y H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ANTHROPOMETRY; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ASIAN; B SCAN; BANGLADESH; BLOOD PRESSURE CUFF; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PAKISTAN; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED KINGDOM; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 79953793342     PISSN: 14602725     EISSN: 14602393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/hcq187     Document Type: Article

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