The Additive Value of Femoral Ultrasound for Subclinical Atherosclerosis Assessment in a Single Center Cohort of 962 Adults, Including High Risk Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

BACKGROUND: Presence of femoral atheromatic plaques, an emerging cardiovascular disease (CVD) biomarker additional to carotid plaques, is poorly investigated in conditions associating with accelerated atherosclerosis such as Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection and...

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Autores principales: Protogerou, Athanasios D., Fransen, Jaap, Zampeli, Evangelia, Argyris, Antonis A., Aissopou, Evagelia, Arida, Aikaterini, Konstantonis, George D., Tentolouris, Nikos, Makrilakis, Konstantinos, Psichogiou, Mina, Daikos, George, Kitas, George D., Sfikakis, Petros P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4521696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26230728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132307

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