Association between presence of the metabolic syndrome and its components with carotid intima-media thickness and carotid and femoral plaque area: a population study

BACKGROUND: We aimed to explore the association between presence and number of components of the Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) and subclinical atherosclerosis outcomes (common carotid intima media thickness, plaque presence and sum of plaque area) in both the carotid and femoral bifurcations. METHODS: C...

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Autores principales: Panayiotou, Andrie G, Griffin, Maura, Kouis, Panayiotis, Tyllis, Theodosis, Georgiou, Niki, Bond, Dawn, Nicolaides, Andrew N
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3765162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23962225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-5996-5-44

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