Relationship between Carotid Intima Media Thickness and Helminth Infections on Flores Island, Indonesia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wiria, Aprilianto Eddy ^a,b   Wammes, Linda J ^b   Hamid, Firdaus ^b,c   Dekkers, Olaf M ^b   Prasetyani, Margaretta A ^a,b   May, Linda ^b   Kaisar, Maria M M ^a,b   Verweij, Jaco J ^b,e   Tamsma, Jouke T ^b   Partono, Felix ^a   Sartono, Erliyani ^b   Supali, Taniawati ^a   Yazdanbakhsh, Maria ^b   Smit, Johannes W A ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c HASANUDDIN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e CPRLab   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 10; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INDONESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WAIST HIP RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HELMINTHS; HUMANS; INDONESIA; INTERLEUKIN-10; ISLANDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

ANCYLOSTOMA DUODENALE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NECATOR AMERICANUS; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

EID: 84872858115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054855     Document Type: Article

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