Blood Pressure Is a Major Modifiable Risk Factor Implicated in Pathogenesis of Intraplaque Hemorrhage: An in Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 743-749

  Sun, Jie ^a   Canton, Gador ^a   Balu, Niranjan ^a   Hippe, Daniel S ^a   Xu, Dongxiang ^a   Liu, Jin ^a   Hatsukami, Thomas S ^a   Yuan, Chun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; blood pressure; cardiovascular disease; intraplaque hemorrhage; MRI

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLEEDING; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRAPLAQUE HEMORRHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CAROTID STENOSIS; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; HEMORRHAGE; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84957670716     PISSN: 10795642     EISSN: 15244636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.115.307043     Document Type: Article

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