Multimodality imaging of subclinical aortic atherosclerosis: Relation of aortic stiffness to calcification and plaque in female twins

Hypertension

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 609-614

  Cecelja, Marina ^a   Hussain, Tarique ^a   Greil, Gerald ^a   Botnar, Rene ^a   Preston, Rebecca ^b   Moayyeri, Alireza ^a   Spector, Tim D ^a   Chowienczyk, Philip ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

arteriosclerosis; atherosclerosis; genetics; imaging; twins

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; CREATININE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PARATHYROID HORMONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA BIFURCATION; AORTA CALCIFICATION; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORACIC AORTA; TWINS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREVALENCE; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84874349505     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.111.00024     Document Type: Article

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