Association of automated carotid IMT measurement and HbA1c in Japanese patients with coronary artery disease

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 348-353

  Saba, Luca ^a   Ikeda, Nobutaka ^b   Deidda, Martino ^a   Araki, Tadashi ^b   Molinari, Filippo ^c   Meiburger, Kristen M ^c   Acharya, U Rajendra ^d,e   Nagashima, Yoshinori ^b   Mercuro, Giuseppe ^a   Nakano, Masataka ^f   Nicolaides, Andrew ^g   Suri, Jasjit S ^h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY OHASHI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^d DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^f CVPATH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g Vascular Diagnostic Center   (Cyprus)

^h AtheroPoint LLC   (United States)

ⁱ IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated measurement; Carotid; HbA1c; Intima media thickness; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLAQUE SCORE; SCORING SYSTEM; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84878478798     PISSN: 01688227     EISSN: 18728227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diabres.2013.03.032     Document Type: Article

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