Risk of coronary and other nonstroke vascular death in relation to the presence and extent of atherosclerotic disease at the carotid bifurcation.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: It has been proposed that purely unilateral carotid stenosis is due mainly to local hemodynamic factors, whereas more diffuse disease reflects a systemic as well as a local predisposition and should therefore be associated with higher rates of arterial disease in the other t...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Touzé, E, Warlow, C, Rothwell, P
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: 2006