Does subclinical atherosclerosis burden identify the increased risk of cardiovascular disease mortality among United Kingdom Indian Asians? A population study

American Heart Journal

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 460-466

  Chahal, Navtej S ^a   Lim, Tiong K ^a   Jain, Piyush ^c   Chambers, John C ^b   Kooner, Jaspal S ^c   Senior, Roxy ^a,c  

^a NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE MARKER; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INDIAN ASIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; Q WAVE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SILENT MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 80052276611     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2011.06.018     Document Type: Article

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