Traditional risk factors are not major contributors to the variance in carotid intima-media thickness

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2101-2108

  Rundek, Tatjana ^a   Blanton, Susan H ^a   Bartels, Susanne ^a,b   Dong, Chuanhui ^a   Raval, Ami ^a   Demmer, Ryan T ^c   Cabral, Digna ^a   Elkind, Mitchell S V ^c,d   Sacco, Ralph L ^a   Desvarieux, Moise ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

carotid intima media thickness; carotid ultrasound; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; HOMOCYSTEINE; INSULIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GROUPS BY AGE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CAROTID ULTRASOUND; RISK FACTORS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 84880834915     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.000745     Document Type: Article

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