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Do Different Vascular Risk Factors Affect All Arteries Equally?
Kosmas I. Paraskevas*,
Nikolaos Bessias,
Theofanis T. Papas,
Christos D. Gekas,
Vassilios Andrikopoulos,
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Dimitri P. Mikhailidis
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: paraskevask{at}hotmail.com.
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Established vascular risk factors (ie, smoking, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and dyslipidemia) play an important role in the development of vascular disease. Emerging evidence suggests that some of these risk factors may have a more intense effect on specific arterial beds, a finding that holds implications for a prognostic role for certain types of vascular disease.
First published on May 27, 2008, doi:10.1177/0003319708318383
Angiology 2008;59:397.
A more recent version of this article appeared on August 1, 2008

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