The prevalence of aortic calcification in Japanese compared to white and Japanese-American middle-aged men is confounded by the amount of cigarette smoking

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 134-139

  El Saed, Aiman ^a,i   Curb, J David ^b   Kadowaki, Takashi ^a,c   Okamura, Tomonori ^c,d   Sutton Tyrrell, Kim ^a   Masaki, Kamal ^b   Seto, Todd B ^e   Takamiya, Tomoko ^a   Choo, Jina ^h   Edmundowicz, Daniel ^f   Evans, Rhobert W ^a   Fujiyoshi, Akira ^c   Nakamura, Yasuyuki ^g   Miura, Katsuyuki ^c   Shin, Chol ^h   Kuller, Lewis H ^a   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^c   Sekikawa, Akira ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^g KYOTO WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h Korea University   (South Korea)

ⁱ MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Aorta; Atherosclerosis; Calcification; Electron beam tomography; Epidemiology; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGATSTON AORTIC CALCIUM SCORES; AGE; AORTA CALCIFICATION; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM SAMPLE; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878612783     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.12.060     Document Type: Article

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