Cardiovascular risk factors associated with enlarged diameter of the abdominal aortic and iliac arteries in healthy women.

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Published in Atherosclerosis on February 01, 2005

Authors

Ami S Patel1, Rachel H Mackey, Rachel P Wildman, Trina Thompson, Karen Matthews, Lewis Kuller, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, 127 Parran Hall, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. patela@edc.pitt.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Women (Healthy Women Study) | NCT00005160

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