| Autor: |
Eduardo D. E. Papa, Izo Helber, Manes R. Ehrlichmann, Claudia Maria Rodrigues Alves, Marcia Makdisse, Livia N. Matos, Jairo Lins Borges, Renato D. Lopes, Edson Stefanini, Antonio Carlos Carvalho |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2013 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Clinics, Vol 68, Iss 12, Pp 1481-1487 (2013) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1980-5322 |
| DOI: |
10.6061/clinics/2013(12)02 |
| Popis: |
OBJECTIVES: To correlate the importance of the ankle-brachial index in terms of cardiovascular morbimortality and the extent of coronary arterial disease amongst elderly patients without clinical manifestations of lower limb peripheral arterial disease. METHODS: We analyzed prospective data from 100 patients over 65 years of age with coronary arterial disease, as confirmed by coronary angiography, and with over 70% stenosis of at least one sub-epicardial coronary artery. We measured the ankle-brachial index immediately after coronary angiography, and a value of |
| Databáze: |
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