Atherosclerosis
Volume 209, Issue 1 , Pages 125-130 , March 2010

The role of carotid intima-media thickness assessment in cardiovascular risk evaluation in patients with polyvascular atherosclerosis

  • Anna Kablak-Ziembicka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Cardiology, Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University in Krakow, 31-202 Krakow, Poland. Tel.: +48 12614 22 87; fax: +48 124234376.
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  • Tadeusz Przewlocki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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  • Piotr Pieniazek

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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  • Piotr Musialek

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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  • Andrzej Sokolowski

      Affiliations

    • University of Economics, Department of Statistics, Krakow, Poland
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  • Rafal Drwila

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiosurgery and Transplantology, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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  • Jerzy Sadowski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiosurgery and Transplantology, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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  • Krzysztof Zmudka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hemodynamics and Angiocardiography, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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  • Wieslawa Tracz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

Received 21 May 2009 ,Revised 23 July 2009 ,Accepted 11 August 2009.

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PII: S0021-9150(09)00681-9

doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2009.08.019

Atherosclerosis
Volume 209, Issue 1 , Pages 125-130 , March 2010

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