Thoracic Aortic Distensibility and Thoracic Aortic Calcium (From the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis [MESA])

Decreased arterial distensibility is an early manifestation of adverse structural and functional changes within the vessel wall. Its correlation with thoracic aortic calcium (TAC), a marker of atherosclerosis, has not been well demonstrated. We tested the hypothesis that decreasing aortic compliance...

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Published in:Am J Cardiol
Main Authors: Al-Mallah, Mouaz H., Nasir, Khurram, Katz, Ronit, Takasu, Junichiro, Lima, Joao A., Bluemke, David A., Hundley, Gregory, Blumenthal, Roger S., Budoff, Matthew J
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4228943/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20691319
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.03.074
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