Incident stroke is associated with common carotid artery diameter and not common carotid artery intima-media thickness

Stroke

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1442-1446

  Polak, Joseph F ^a   Sacco, Ralph L ^b   Post, Wendy S ^c   Vaidya, Dhananjay ^c   Kweku Arnan, Martinson ^d   O'Leary, Daniel H ^e  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

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

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid arteries; Risk factors; Stroke; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

CAROTID ARTERIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 84899962126     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.004850     Document Type: Article

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