Bilateral diagonal earlobe crease and coronary artery disease: A significant association

Dermatology

Volumn 209, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 271-275

  Evrengül, Harun ^a,d   Dursunoĝlu, Dursun ^a   Kaftan, Asuman ^a   Zoghi, Mehdi ^b   Tanriverdi, Halil ^a   Zungur, Mustafa ^c   Kiliç, Mustafa ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Cag Hospital   (Turkey)

^d NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Coronary risk factors; Diagonal earlobe crease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EAR LOBE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; EAR, EXTERNAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 8344282099     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080847     Document Type: Article

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