Relationship between atherosclerotic risk factors and aortic plaques in patients with first-ever ischaemic stroke

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 930-935

  Mizuma, Atsushi ^a   Kijima, Chikage ^a   Iijima, Kazuyuki ^b   Goto, Yoshiaki ^b   Honma, Kazunari ^a   Yasuda, Takashi ^b   Tokuoka, Kentaro ^b   Kitagawa, Yasuhisa ^b   Takizawa, Shunya ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY HACHIOJI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortogenic brain embolism; Artery to artery embolism; Carotid plaque; Chronic kidney disease; Transoesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AGE; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LDL HDL RATIO; LIPID ANALYSIS; LOW RISK PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD; ECHOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; STROKE;

AGED; AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERIES; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 84907688315     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: 14442892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2014.02.013     Document Type: Article

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