Subclinical carotid artery disease and plasma homocysteine levels in patients with hypertension

Journal of the American Society of Hypertension

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 167-175

  Catena, Cristiana ^a,b   Colussi, Gianluca ^a   Url Michitsch, Marion ^b   Nait, Francesca ^a   Sechi, Leonardo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; carotid plaques; cerebrovascular disease; intima media thickness

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PLASMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK FACTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; AUSTRIA; BLOOD; CAROTID STENOSIS; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; HYPERTENSION; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; AUSTRIA; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84925247224     PISSN: 19331711     EISSN: 18787436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jash.2014.12.020     Document Type: Article

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