How to identify subjects with poly-vascular disease?

Current Vascular Pharmacology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 728-730

  Vlachopoulos, Charalambos ^a   Terentes Printzios, Dimitrios ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Intima media thickness; Multisite arterial disease; Polyvascular; Prognosis; Pulse wave velocity

Indexed keywords

ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYVASCULAR DISEASE; PULSE WAVE; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIOVASCULAR; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE, VASCULOGENIC; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84870191190     PISSN: 15701611     EISSN: 18756212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157016112803520846     Document Type: Article

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