Gender differences in coronary artery diameter are not related to body habitus or left ventricular mass

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 605-609

  Hiteshi, Amit K ^a   Li, Dong ^a   Gao, Yanlin ^a   Chen, Andy ^a   Flores, Ferdinand ^a   Mao, Song Shou ^a   Budoff, Matthew J ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; BODY SIZE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84911807670     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.22310     Document Type: Article

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