Arterial stiffening: Causes and consequences

Artery Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 22-27

  Cecelja, Marina ^a   Chowienczyk, Phil ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aortic calcification; Aortic imaging; Aortic stiffness; Atherosclerosis; Haemodynamics; Heritability; Pulse pressure

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED GLYCATION END PRODUCT; ELASTIN; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE;

AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 84874344246     PISSN: 18729312     EISSN: 18764401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artres.2012.09.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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