Premature hair whitening is an independent predictor of carotid intima-media thickness in young and middle-aged men

Internal Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-36

  Erdoǧan, Turan ^a   Kocaman, Sinan Altan ^b   Çetin, Mustafa ^b   Durakoǧlugil, Murtaza Emre ^a   Uǧurlu, Yavuz ^b   Şahin, Ismail ^b   Çanga, Aytun ^b  

^a RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Department of Cardiology   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Biological age; Carotid intima media thickness; Framingham risk score; Gray hair; Vascular aging

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UREA; URIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HAIR COLOR; HAIR DISCOLORATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREMATURITY; SCORING SYSTEM; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HAIR; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84871956234     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.52.7842     Document Type: Article

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