Response to letter regarding article, "traditional risk factors are not major contributors to the variance in carotid intima-media thickness"

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Rundek, Tatjana ^a   Blanton, Susan H ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; LETTER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84889259756     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.003653     Document Type: Letter

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