Exercise ankle brachial index adds important prognostic information on long-term out-come only in patients with a normal resting ankle brachial index

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 365-369

  de Liefde, Inge I ^a   Klein, Jan ^a   Bax, Jeroen J ^b   Verhagen, Hence J M ^a   van Domburg, Ron T ^a   Poldermans, Don ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ankle brachial index; Exercise test; Mortality; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REST; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

AGED; ANKLE; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOLOGY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958008173     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.10.051     Document Type: Article

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