Mediterranean diet and carotid atherosclerosis in the Northern Manhattan study

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 303-310

  Gardener, Hannah ^a   Wright, Clinton B ^a   Cabral, Digna ^a   Scarmeas, Nikolaos ^b,c   Gu, Yian ^b   Cheung, Ken ^d   Elkind, Mitchell S V ^e   Sacco, Ralph L ^a   Rundek, Tatjana ^a  

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

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid atherosclerosis; Intima media thickness; Mediterranean diet; Plaque

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAUCASIAN; DIETARY COMPLIANCE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; RISK FACTOR; THICKNESS; VEGETABLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROTECTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROTECTIVE FACTORS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84900871184     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2014.03.011     Document Type: Article

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