carotid IMT
Association between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and ischemic stroke.
... The IMT (The distance between the leading edge of the first and second echogenic lines) was measured at the far wall of both common carotid arteries approximately 2, 1, and ...the carotid bulb at a ...
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The estimated GFR, but not the stage of diabetic nephropathy graded by the urinary albumin excretion, is associated with the carotid intima-media thickness in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study
... The IMT of the carotid artery was measured with ultra- sonographic examinations by skilled laboratory techni- cians using Aplio XV ultrasound machine (Toshiba Medical Systems ...the carotid artery ...
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Correlation between coronary artery disease severity, left ventricular mass index and carotid intima media thickness, assessed by radio-frequency
... assess IMT, using the classical ultrasound to chase their aims. Carotid IMT has been shown to corre- late with left ventricular mass in patients with hyperten- sion [14,30] and we tried to point out ...
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Morphological macrovascular alterations in complex regional pain syndrome type I demonstrated by increased intima-media thickness
... Carotid IMT measurement by B-mode ultrasound is a common, reproducible and well accepted technique to evaluate the vascular status of patients ...the carotid artery, peripheral IMT ...
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Association between microalbuminuria and subclinical atherosclerosis evaluated by carotid artery intima-media in elderly patients with normal renal function
... by carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) and microalbuminuria in elderly patients with normal renal ...34). Carotid IMT was measured by means of high-resolution B-mode ...
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A Study on Carotid Arterial Remodeling in patients with Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease and Disease Free Subjects.
... common carotid and brachial arteries in 40 offspring (mean age 19 years) recruited from patients hospitalized with premature acute myocardial ...common carotid IMT and more abnormalities in brachial ...
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Relations of lipid parameters, other variables with carotid intima-media thickness and plaque in the general Chinese adults: an observational study
... pressure and carotid IMT or plaque [19–21]. In the present study, multivariate analyses have demonstrated that SBP is correlated with carotid IMT, while DBP is correlated with the presence of ...
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Pathophysiology of carotid-cavernous fistulas in vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: a retrospective cohort and comprehensive review
... lower IMT in healthy females compared to males can be found in the literature [80–82]: sex is signifi- cantly correlated with carotid artery IMT (P ...lower IMT than age matched males ...
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Effects of antihypertensive drugs on carotid intima-media thickness: Focus on angiotensin II receptor blockers. A review of randomized, controlled trials
... which IMT was measured in order to assess the impact of antihypertensive drugs on carotid structure; focusing on the following questions in particular: 1) does antihypertensive treatment affect IMT ...
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Evaluation of Visceral and Subcutaneous Fat by Ultrasound and Its Relationship with Clinical and Metabolic Parameters of Insulin Resistance and Subclinical Atherosclerosis
... with carotid IMT, regardless of sex, age, abdominal obesity ultra- sound measurements, anthropometric parameters and components of ...with carotid IMT [30], while in the study by Kawamoto, ...
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Cardiovascular risk in chronic kidney disease patients: intima-media thickness predicts the incidence and severity of histologically assessed medial calcification in radial arteries
... abnormal carotid IMT ...plaques. Carotid plaque evaluation may Table 3 Logistic regression models to study the association between CCA-IMT and radial artery ...
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Carotid artery intima–media thickness, distensibility and elasticity: population epidemiology and concordance in Australian children aged 11–12 years old and their parents
... provide carotid IMT concordance data between children and their parents in a large population-based ...of carotid IMT and other vascular measures in preadolescent chil- dren and mid-life ...
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Relationship of short-term blood pressure variability with carotid intima-media thickness in hypertensive patients
... the carotid artery structure for different indices of BPV [20, 30]. In the earlier study [15], they found that daytime systolic BPV evaluated with ARV is the best variable to repre- sent the increasing of ...
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Telomere length and vascular phenotypes in a population based cohort of children and midlife adults
... thicker carotid IMT than children (663 [SD, 97] lm versus 580 [SD, 46] l m) and stiffer vessels, as shown in faster carotid- femoral PWV ...lower carotid elasticity ...thicker carotid ...
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Human Genetic Evidence for Involvement of CD137 in Atherosclerosis
... The carotid IMT was measured using B-mode ultrasound, and clinical and biochemical data were collected as previously described ...right carotid ar- teries were examined at two levels of the common ...
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The renal tubular damage marker urinary N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidase may be more closely associated with early detection of atherosclerosis than the glomerular damage marker albuminuria in patients with type 2 diabetes
... with carotid atherosclerosis than the glo- merulopathic marker albuminuria, which might rein- force the comparability between ...of carotid IMT were statistically sig- nificant but of only slight to ...
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Carotid intima-media thickness in individuals with and without type 2 diabetes: a reproducibility study
... of carotid IMT. The technique, by which caro- tid IMT is determined, consists of two steps: The first step is the “scanning procedure” ...the carotid artery, with storage of pictures/dynamic ...
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Comparison of intima-media thickness and ophthalmic artery resistance index for assessing subclinical atherosclerosis in HIV-1-infected patients
... of carotid IMT by ultrasonogra- phy is a well established method for assessing sub-clinical atherosclerosis in the HIV-negative population and it is the only non-invasive imaging recommended by the American ...
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Frequency of coronary artery stenosis in patients with asymptomatic familial hypercholesterolemia and its association with carotid intimal thickness and cardio-ankle vascular index
... The IMT was measured as the distance from the lead- ing edge of the first echogenic line to the leading edge of the second echogenic ...mean IMT values, the IMT values at sites 1 cm and 2 cm proximal ...
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Diabetes and pre-diabetes are associated with cardiovascular risk factors and carotid/femoral intima-media thickness independently of markers of insulin resistance and adiposity
... and IMT was only partially explained by waist, BMI and ...studies, carotid IMT was associated with 2hBG but with neither fasting glycemia nor a insulin sensitivity index ...results, IMT ...
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