Impaired brachial flow-mediated dilation is a predictor of a new-onset vascular event after stroke

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 155-162

  Santos García, Diego ^a,b   Blanco, Miguel ^a   Serena, Joaquín ^c   Rodríguez Yáñez, Manuel ^a   Leira, Rogelio ^a   Castillo, José ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b Universidad de La Coruña   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL JOSEP TRUETA   (Spain)

^d Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Carotid plaque; Endothelial dysfunction; Flow mediated dilation; Intima media thickness; Ischemic stroke; Vascular event

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BRACHIAL ARTERY; BRACHIAL ARTERY FLOW MEDIATED DILATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLAUDICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART GRAFT; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTIMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; STROKE; VASODILATATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID STENOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; THROMBOSIS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 79960489147     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000328651     Document Type: Article

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