Usefulness of coronary and carotid imaging rather than traditional atherosclerotic risk factors to identify firefighters at increased risk for cardiovascular disease

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1499-1504

  Ratchford, Elizabeth V ^a   Carson, Kathryn A ^b   Jones, Steven R ^a   Ashen, M Dominique ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; INTERMEDIATE DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN A; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD; BODY MASS; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERIOGRAPHY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FIRE FIGHTER; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREHYPERTENSION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; REFERENCE DATABASE; REYNOLDS RISK SCORE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS INDEX; CALCIUM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FIREFIGHTERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84898877204     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: 18791913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2014.02.003     Document Type: Article

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