Predicting coronary heart disease: From framingham risk score to ultrasound bioimaging

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 654-663

  Sillesen, Henrik ^a   Fuster, Valentin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

3 dimensional ultrasound; cardiovascular disease; carotid intima media thickness; carotid plaque; prediction of risk; ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

AORTA; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMORAL ARTERY; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REVIEW;

ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84871336156     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.21343     Document Type: Review

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