The Relationship of Carotid Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Vessel Wall Volume with Age and Sex: Comparison to Carotid Intima-Media Thickness

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1145-1153

  Buchanan, Daniel N ^a,b   Lindenmaier, Tamas ^a,b   McKay, Shayna ^a   Bureau, Yves ^b   Hackam, Daniel G ^b   Fenster, Aaron ^a   Parraga, Grace ^a,b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound; Age; Carotid atherosclerosis; Intima media thickness; Sex; Total plaque volume; Vessel wall volume

Indexed keywords

3-D ULTRASOUND; AGE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; SEX; TOTAL PLAQUE VOLUME; VESSEL WALLS;

RADIOLOGY; ULTRASONICS;

DISEASES;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; ORGAN SIZE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861903012     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.02.013     Document Type: Article

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