Common carotid intima media thickness and ankle-brachial pressure index correlate with local but not global atheroma burden: A cross sectional study using whole body magnetic resonance angiography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Weir McCall, Jonathan R ^a,b   Khan, Faisel ^a   Lambert, Matthew A ^a   Adamson, Carly L ^c   Gardner, Michael ^c   Gandy, Stephen J ^b   Ramkumar, Prasad Guntur ^b   Belch, Jill J F ^a   Struthers, Allan D ^a   Rauchhaus, Petra ^a   Morris, Andrew D ^a   Houston, J Graeme ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b NINEWELLS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; GADOTERATE MEGLUMINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CONTRAST MEDIUM; MEGLUMINE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNDROME DELINEATION; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; AGED; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; EXERCISE TEST; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PROCEDURES; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MEGLUMINE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; VASCULAR STIFFNESS; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84903132476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099190     Document Type: Article

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