Vascular function tests - For whom and why?

Circulation Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1057-1058

  Tomiyama, Hirofumi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NATRIURETIC FACTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; PROADRENOMEDULLIN; TROPONIN T;

ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOAVAILABILITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CORONARY CALCIUM SCORE; EDITORIAL; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEOMICS; PULSE WAVE; VASCULAR FUNCTION TEST;

HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 79955702336     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-10-1176     Document Type: Editorial

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