Evolution of aortic wall thickness and stiffness with atherosclerosis: Long-term follow up from the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis

Hypertension

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1015-1019

  Liu, Chia Ying ^a   Chen, Doris ^b   Bluemke, David A ^a,b   Wu, Colin O ^c   Teixido Tura, Gisela ^d   Chugh, Atul ^e   Vasu, Sujethra ^f   Lima, João A C ^b   Hundley, W Gregory ^f,g  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^e University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^f WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

hypertension; magnetic resonance imaging; vascular stiffness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA WALL; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SEX DIFFERENCE; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CINE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACIC AORTA; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84937431516     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.114.05080     Document Type: Article

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