Can Metabolic Syndrome Presence Predict Carotid Intima-Media Thickness?

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 507-513

  Timóteo, Ana T ^a   Carmo, Miguel M ^a   Ferreira, Rui C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARTA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENDER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84864559472     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2012.00630.x     Document Type: Article

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