Asymptomatic Polyvascular Abnormalities in Community (APAC) study in China: Objectives, design and baseline characteristics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Yong ^a   Li, Yang ^b   Xu, Liang ^b   Xu, Jie ^b   Wang, Anxing ^a   Gao, Xiang ^c,d   Wu, Shouling ^e   Wei, Wen Bin ^b   Zhao, Xingquan ^a   Jonas, Jost B ^b,f  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e HEBEI UNITED UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE; LIPID;

ADULT; AGE; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC POLYVASCULAR ANOMALY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHINA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNDUS CAMERA; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; RETINOPATHY; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX RATIO; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; VASCULAR DISEASE; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; CAROTID ARTERIES; CHINA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS;

EID: 84893487236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084685     Document Type: Article

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