Recently postmenopausal women have the same prevalence of subclinical carotid atherosclerosis as age and traditional risk factor matched men

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 508-513

  Stamatelopoulos, Kimon S ^a   Armeni, Eleni ^b   Georgiopoulos, Georgios ^a   Kazani, Maria ^a   Kyrkou, Katerina ^a   Stellos, Konstantinos ^c   Koliviras, Athanasios ^a   Alexandrou, Andreas ^b   Creatsa, Maria ^b   Papamichael, Christos ^a   Lambrinoudaki, Irene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

IMT; Menopause; Primary prevention; Subclinical atherosclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84858700465     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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