Erythrocyte sedimentation rate as a marker for coronary heart disease

Vascular Health and Risk Management

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 219-223

  Yayan, Josef ^a  

^a Diabetes Center Vinzentius Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; Coronary heart disease; Erythrocyte sedimentation rate; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; BLOOD; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; GERMANY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA PECTORIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863191498     PISSN: 11766344     EISSN: 11782048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/VHRM.S29284     Document Type: Article

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