Sex differences in aortic valve calcification

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 8-10

  Shames, Sofia ^a   Gillam, Linda D ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Calcium; Cardiac computed tomography; Editorials; Sex

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE CALCIFICATION; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; BODY SURFACE; CALCIFICATION; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; GOLD STANDARD; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; RADIOGRAPHY;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84874546063     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.112.983288     Document Type: Editorial

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