Efficacy of combined use of three non-invasive atherosclerosis tests to predict vascular events in the elderly; carotid intima-media thickness, flow-mediated dilation of brachial artery and pulse wave velocity

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 231, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 365-370

  Nagai, Kumiko ^a   Shibata, Shigeki ^a   Akishita, Masahiro ^b   Sudoh, Noriko ^a   Obara, Toshimasa ^a   Toba, Kenji ^c   Kozaki, Koichi ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flow mediated dilation; Intima media thickness; Pulse wave velocity; Vascular event

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW MEDIATED DILATION; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE;

FLOW-MEDIATED DILATION; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; PULSE WAVE VELOCITY; VASCULAR EVENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; VASODILATION;

EID: 84888126127     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2013.09.028     Document Type: Article

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