The continuum of risk: Vascular pathophysiology, function, and structure

Circulation

Volumn 110, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 2774-2777

  Hirsch, Alan T ^a,b   Folsom, Aaron R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Cardiovascular diseases; Editorials; Epidemiology; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN A; N(G),N(G) DIMETHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY TONE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY RISK; DIET; DISEASE MARKER; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME REGULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXERCISE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; VASODILATION;

EID: 8144222615     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000147616.76919.99     Document Type: Editorial

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