Feasibility of very-high resolution ultrasound to assess elastic and muscular arterial wall morphology in adolescents attending an outpatient clinic for obesity and lipid abnormalities

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 610-615

  Sarkola, Taisto ^a,c   Abadilla, Arvin A ^a   Chahal, Nita ^a   Jaeggi, Edgar ^a,b   McCrindle, Brian W ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI AND HELSINKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Artery wall morphology; Brachial artery; Carotid artery; Hypertension; IMT; Lipid disorder; Obesity; Radial artery

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELASTICITY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OBESITY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TIME; ULTRASOUND; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION ULTRASOUND;

ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DYSLIPIDEMIAS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LINEAR MODELS; LIPIDS; MALE; OBESITY; ONTARIO; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 82955161561     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.08.036     Document Type: Article

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