Association between coronary artery disease diagnosed by coronary angiography and breast arterial calcifications on mammography: Meta-analysis of the data

Journal of Women's Health

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1053-1058

  Rafeh, Nidal Abi ^a   Castellanos, Mario R ^b   Khoueiry, Georges ^b   Meghani, Mustafain ^b   El Sayegh, Suzanne ^b   Wetz, Robert V ^b   Lafferty, James C ^b   Kleiner, Morton ^b   Tamburrino, Frank ^b   Kiss, Alexander ^c   Raia, Carolyn ^b   Kowalski, Marcin ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BREAST ARTERIAL CALCIFICATION; BREAST CALCIFICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

BREAST; BREAST DISEASES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84867199436     PISSN: 15409996     EISSN: 1931843X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2011.3388     Document Type: Article

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