Body-surface adjusted aortic reference diameters for improved identification of patients with thoracic aortic aneurysms: Results from the population-based Heinz Nixdorf Recall study

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 72-78

  Kälsch, Hagen ^a   Lehmann, Nils ^b   Möhlenkamp, Stefan ^a   Becker, Anna ^a   Moebus, Susanne ^b   Schmermund, Axel ^c   Stang, Andreas ^d   Mahabadi, Amir A ^a   Mann, Klaus ^b   Jöckel, Karl Heinz ^b   Erbel, Raimund ^a   Eggebrecht, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c Cardio Angiologic Center Bethanien   (Germany)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic reference diameters; Body surface area; Thoracic aortic aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY SURFACE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THORACIC AORTA DIAMETER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASCENDING THORACIC AORTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING THORACIC AORTA; EUROPEAN; HIGH RISK PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; THORACIC AORTA;

AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BODY SURFACE AREA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84873093091     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.05.039     Document Type: Article

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