Associations among different functional and structural arterial wall properties and their relations to traditional cardiovascular risk factors in healthy subjects: A cross-sectional study

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lunder, Mojca ^a   Janic, Miodrag ^a   Kejzar, Natasa ^a   Sabovic, Miso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ADULT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR STIFFNESS; VASODILATION;

EID: 84862168280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2261-12-29     Document Type: Article

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