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Establishing baseline criteria of cardio-ankle vascular index as a new indicator of arteriosclerosis: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: A cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) has been developed to represent the extent of arteriosclerosis throughout the aorta, femoral artery and tibial artery independent of blood pressure. To practically use CAVI as a diagnostic tool for determining the extent of arteriosclerosis, our study...

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Autores principales: Namekata, Tsukasa, Suzuki, Kenji, Ishizuka, Norio, Shirai, Kohji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21831311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-11-51