Breast arterial calcifications: A systematic review and meta-analysis of their determinants and their association with cardiovascular events

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 239, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 11-20

  Hendriks, Eva J E ^a   De Jong, Pim A ^a   van der Graaf, Yolanda ^a   Mali, Willem P Th M ^a   van der Schouw, Yvonne T ^a   Beulens, Joline W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arteriosclerosis; Cardiovascular events; Epidemiology; Medial arterial calcification; Risk factors; Vascular calcification

Indexed keywords

ARTERY CALCIFICATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BREAST; BREAST CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NULLIPARA; OBESITY; PARITY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; REVIEW; SMOKING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPLICATION; META ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ARTERIES; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84920609060     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2014.12.035     Document Type: Review

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