Vascular aging of common carotid artery and abdominal aorta in clinically normal individuals and preclinical patients with cardiovascular risk factors: Diagnostic value of two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 222-228

  Oishi, Yoshifumi ^a   Miyoshi, Hirokazu ^a   Iuchi, Arata ^a   Nagase, Norio ^a   Ara, Nusrat ^b   Oki, Takashi ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^b RAWALPINDI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Aorta; Arterial aging; Carotid artery; Strain; Two dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTIC PEAK CIRCUMFERENTIAL DIAMETER; ABDOMINAL AORTIC PEAK CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRAIN; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMMON CAROTID ARTERIAL PEAK CIRCUMFERENTIAL DIAMETER; COMMON CAROTID ARTERIAL PEAK CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRAIN; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATRIX SECTOR ARRAY PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SECTOR ARRAY PROBE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPECKLE TRACKING ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VASCULAR AGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VASCULAR STIFFNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878246692     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: 16152573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-011-0229-y     Document Type: Article

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