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Smoking status and common carotid artery intima-medial thickness among middle-aged men and women based on ultrasound measurement: a cohort study

BACKGROUND: Cigarette smoking is an established causal factor for atherosclerosis. However, the smoking effect on different echogenic components of carotid arterial wall measured by ultrasound is not well elucidated. METHODS: Middle-aged men and women who had IMT measurement ≥ 0.7 mm at baseline and...

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Main Authors: Fan, Amy Z, Paul-Labrador, Maura, Merz, C Noel Bairey, Iribarren, Carlos, Dwyer, James H
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1634872/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17067397
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-6-42
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