A multicenter study design to assess the clinical usefulness of semi-automatic measurement of flow-mediated vasodilatation of the brachial artery

International Heart Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 170-175

  Tomiyama, Hirofumi ^a   Kohro, Takahide ^b   Higashi, Yukihito ^c   Takase, Bonpei ^d   Suzuki, Toru ^b   Ishizu, Tomoko ^e   Ueda, Shinichiro ^f   Yamazaki, Tsutomu ^g   Furumoto, Tomoo ^h   Kario, Kazuomi ⁱ   Inoue, Teruo ^j   Koba, Shinji ^k   Watanabe, Kentaro ^l   Takemoto, Yasuhiko ^m   Hano, Takuzo ⁿ   Sata, Masataka ^o   Ishibashi, Yutaka ^p   Node, Koichi ^q   Maemura, Koji ^r   Ohya, Yusuke ^s   Furukawa, Taiji ^t   Ito, Hiroshi ^u   Yamashina, Akira ^a   more..

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^h HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

ⁱ JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^l Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

^m OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

ⁿ WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^o UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^p SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^q SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^r NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^s UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^t TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^u OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Carotid atherosclerosis; Coronary artery disease; Endothelium; Flow mediated vasodilatation; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; URIC ACID;

ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW MEDIATED DILATATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROALBUMINURIA; MULTICENTER STUDY; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEOMICS; PULSE WAVE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID STENOSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEOMICS; RISK FACTORS; SOFTWARE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VASODILATION;

EID: 84863470789     PISSN: 13492365     EISSN: 13493299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.53.170     Document Type: Article

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