Risk of disease progression in patients with moderate asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis: Implications of tobacco use and dual antiplatelet therapy

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-8

  Hicks, Caitlin W ^a,b   Talbott, Katherine ^a   Canner, Joseph K ^a,b   Qazi, Umair ^a   Arhuidese, Isibor ^a   Glebova, Natalia O ^b   Freischlag, Julie A ^b   Perler, Bruce A ^b   Malas, Mahmoud B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TOBACCO USE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANGIOPLASTY; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CAROTID STENOSIS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPLICATION; DEVICES; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG COMBINATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; STENT; STROKE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; BALTIMORE; CAROTID STENOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKING; STENTS; STROKE; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX;

EID: 84920812754     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2014.02.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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