Intima-Media Thickness Measurements in the Fetus and Mother During Pregnancy: A Feasibility Study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1949-1957

  Galjaard, Sander ^a   Pasman, Suzanne A ^a   Ameye, Lieveke ^b   Timmerman, Dirk ^a   Devlieger, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arterial wall properties; Body mass index; Fetal programming; Fetus; Intima media thickness; Maternal medicine; Obesity

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; OBSTETRICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

ARTERIAL WALL; BODY MASS INDEX; FETUS; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; OBESITY;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BODY MASS; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPH; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; MOTHER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UTERINE ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FOLLOW UP; IMAGE PROCESSING; KIDNEY ARTERY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; BODY MASS INDEX; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RENAL ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UTERINE ARTERY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905572266     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2014.02.018     Document Type: Article

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