High-resolution radial artery intima-media thickness and cardiovascular risk factors in patients with suspected coronary artery disease - Comparison with common carotid artery intima-media thickness

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 118-123

  Eklund, Charlotte ^a,b   Friberg, Peter ^a,b   Gan, Li Ming ^a,b,c  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Cardiovascular disease; Intima media thickness; Radial artery; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIAL ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWEDEN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84857033902     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.12.035     Document Type: Article

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