Abeer Mohammed Ahmed Hassan <br/><br/>
Arterial wall stiffness and sub-clinical atherosclerosis in scleroderma patients and its relation to disease parameters and to traditional risk factors /  
 عدم مرونة الشرايين وتصلبها الغير واضح إكلينيكيا فى مرض الجسوة (تصلب الجلد) وعلاقاته بعوامل المرض وعوامل الخطورة التقليدية 
Abeer Mohammed Ahmed Hassan ; Supervised Manal Mohamed Sedky Abdou , Soha Mostafa Eldesouky , Khaled Mohammed Helmy Elkaffas 
 - Cairo :   Abeer Mohammed Ahmed Hassan ,   2012 
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<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 
<br/><br/> The present study was performed to estimate arterial wall stiffness and early atherosclerosis in scleroderma (SSc) patients and its relation to disease parametres and traditional risk factors . Conclusion Our finding confirm an increased pervalence of  macrvascular disease in SSc patients as assessed by significant impairment of FMD flow change and ccIMT and it seems to be associated with traditional cardiovascular risk factors as age dyslipidemia and obesity (BMI) and also associated with use of steroids and markers of inflammation such as CRP and ESR level 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>A rterial wall stiffness and endothelial dysfunction Atherosclerosis  Systemic sclerosis