Sex differences in associations of arterial compliance with coronary artery plaque and calcification burden

© 2017 The Authors and Medtronic. Background--Coronary artery disease is a leading killer of women. Arterial stiffness predicts myocardial infarction, and postmenopausal women have lower arterial compliance (AC) than men. We hypothesized that lower AC would be associated with greater burden of coron...

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Main Authors: Coutinho, T., Yam, Y., Dwivedi, Girish, Inácio, J., Chow, B.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72714