Artery Research
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 15-18 , March 2010

Racial differences in relation between carotid and radial augmentation index

  • Jun Sugawara

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Human Science and Biomedical Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan
    • Cardiovascular Aging Research Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Institute for Human Science and Biomedical Engineering, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 6, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 8566, Japan. Tel.: +81 29 861 7138; fax: +81 29 861 6660.
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  • Hidehiko Komine

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Human Science and Biomedical Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan
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  • Mutsuko Yoshiwaza

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Human Science and Biomedical Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki, Japan
    • Center for Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
    • Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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  • Takashi Tarumi

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Aging Research Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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  • Seiji Maeda

      Affiliations

    • Center for Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
    • ,
  • Hirofumi Tanaka

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Aging Research Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

Received 29 September 2009 ,Revised 2 November 2009 ,Accepted 2 December 2009.

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☆ Grant support: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad (JS) and NIH grant AG20966 (HT).

PII: S1872-9312(09)00315-9

doi: 10.1016/j.artres.2009.12.002

Artery Research
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 15-18 , March 2010

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