Cardiovascular risk assessment using carotid ultrasonography: The Rotterdam Study
(Cardiovasculaire risicoschatting met behulp van echografie van de halsslagaders: Het ERGO onderzoek)
2001-09-26
Doctoral Thesis
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Atherosclerosis is the main cause of coronary heart disease, stroke and peripheral arterial disease. These cardiovascular diseases are the most important cause of morbidity and responsible for 50% of all mortality in the United States, Europe and much of Asia. l Since atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases are most prominently present in the elderly and the number of elderly people will increase in the coming decades, atherosclerosis-related diseases will put a heavy burden on our health care systems.
Supervisors
(promotores):
The
author
wishes to thank:
NWO,
Netherlands Health Research and Development Council,
Netherlands Heart Foundation
Keywords
Automatically Extracted Terms
- carotid
- study
- carotid artery
- plaque
- artery
- infarction
- thickness
- intima-media
- subject
- atherosclerosi
- measurement
- risk factors
- carotid intima-media thickness
- disease
- stroke
- carotid imt
- intima-media thickness
- progression
- carotid plaques
- factor
