Aortic stiffness and calcification in men in a population-based international study

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 473-477

  Sekikawa, Akira ^a,b   Shin, Chol ^c   Curb, J David ^d   Barinas Mitchell, Emma ^a   Masaki, Kamal ^d   El Saed, Aiman ^a   Seto, Todd B ^e   Mackey, Rachel H ^a   Choo, Jina ^c   Fujiyoshi, Akira ^b   Miura, Katsuyuki ^b   Edmundowicz, Daniel ^a   Kuller, Lewis H ^a   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^b   Sutton Tyrrell, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e Queen's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic calcification; Aortic stiffness; International multi ethnic study

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; CALCIUM; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AORTA ARCH; AORTA CALCIFICATION; AORTIC CALCIUM SCORE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; CAROTID FEMORAL PULSE WAVE VELOCITY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ILIAC ARTERY; KOREAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RACE; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; ASIAN AMERICANS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COMPLIANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PULSATILE FLOW; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84861345810     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2012.03.027     Document Type: Article

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