Thinking beyond traditional cardiovascular risk factors: The role of arterial stiffness in targeting residual risk

Angiology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-11

  Katsiki, Niki ^a   Koumaras, Charalambos ^b   Athyros, Vasilios G ^b   Karagiannis, Asterios ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; VASCULAR STIFFNESS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 82955194914     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: 19401574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319711406256     Document Type: Article

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