The Cardiovascular Trial of the Testosterone Trials: Rationale, design, and baseline data of a clinical trial using computed tomographic imaging to assess the progression of coronary atherosclerosis

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 95-103

  Alamir, Moshrik Abd ^a   Ellenberg, Susan S ^b   Swerdloff, Ronald S ^a   Wenger, Nanette K ^e   Mohler, Emile R ^c   Lewis, Cora E ^f   Barrett Conner, Elizabeth ^g   Nakanishi, Rine ^h   Darabian, Sirous ^a   Alani, Anas ^a   Matsumoto, Suguru ^a   Nezarat, Negin ^a   Snyder, Peter J ^d   Budoff, Matthew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics   (United States)

^c Section of Respiratory Medicine   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Coronary artery plaque progression; Coronary computed tomographic angiography; Randomized controlled trial; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; TESTOSTERONE; ANDROGEN;

AGED; ANDROGEN THERAPY; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SOFTWARE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STUDY DESIGN; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HYPOGONADISM; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANDROGENS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; TESTOSTERONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84957849050     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: 14735830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCA.0000000000000321     Document Type: Article

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