Ethnic differences in cardiovascular risk in rheumatic disease: Focus on Asians

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 609-618

  Yiu, Kai Hang ^a   Tse, Hung Fat ^a   Mok, Mo Yin ^a   Lau, Chak Sing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ASIAN; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 80053913306     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2011.126     Document Type: Review

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