Doppler study of cerebral arteries in hypercholesterolemia

Vascular Health and Risk Management

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 203-207

  Farhoudi, Mehdi ^a   Mehrvar, Kaveh ^b   Aslanabadi, Naser ^c   Ghabili, Kamyar ^a   Rasi Baghmishe, Nazila ^c   Ilkhchoei, Farzad ^c  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cerebral arteries; Hypercholesterolemia; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IRAN; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 79961192253     PISSN: 11766344     EISSN: 11782048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/VHRM.S18663     Document Type: Review

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