Carotid intima-media thickness and cardiovascular events

The Lancet

Volumn 379, Issue 9831, 2012, Pages 2028-2030

  Nambi, Vijay ^a,b   Pedroza, Claudia ^c   Kao, Lillian S ^c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BEN TAUB GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STROKE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 84861604666     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60652-7     Document Type: Note

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