Association between circulating leukocyte subtype counts and carotid intima-media thickness in japanese subjects with type 2 diabetes

Cardiovascular Diabetology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Matsumura, Takeshi ^a   Taketa, Kayo ^a   Motoshima, Hiroyuki ^a   Senokuchi, Takafumi ^a   Ishii, Norio ^a   Kinoshita, Hiroyuki ^a   Fukuda, Kazuki ^a   Yamada, Sarie ^a   Kukidome, Daisuke ^a   Kondo, Tatsuya ^a   Hisada, Aya ^a   Katoh, Takahiko ^a   Shimoda, Seiya ^a   Nishikawa, Takeshi ^a   Araki, Eiichi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotid intima media thickness; Diabetic macrovascular complication; Leukocyte subtype counts; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INSULIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BASOPHIL; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETIC MICROANGIOPATHY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGING SOFTWARE; JAPANESE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PULSE WAVE; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; URINARY EXCRETION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALBUMINURIA; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EOSINOPHILS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; NEUTROPHILS; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84891014239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2840-12-177     Document Type: Article

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