Impact of cardiovascular risk factors on vessel wall inflammation and calcified plaque burden differs across vascular beds: A PET-CT study

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1899-1908

  Strobl, Frederik F ^a   Rominger, Axel ^a   Wolpers, Sarah ^a   Rist, Carsten ^a   Bamberg, Fabian ^a   Thierfelder, Kolja M ^a   Nikolaou, Konstantin ^a   Uebleis, Christopher ^a   Hacker, Marcus ^a   Reiser, Maximilian F ^a   Saam, Tobias ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Calcification; Inflammation; PET CT

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGE; ARTERITIS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ILIAC ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORACIC AORTA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GERMANY; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTENSION; ILIAC ARTERY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION; VASCULITIS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84890120286     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-013-0277-8     Document Type: Article

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