Carotid Intima Media Thickness vs CAT score:
PREDICTORS OF CAROTID INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS IN OBESE ADOLESCENTS
... increased carotid intima media thickness (cIMT) in obese children and ...of carotid intima media thickness and exercise stress test were ...
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Common Carotid Artery Intima Media Thickness Segmentation
... layers of the arterial wall. One of the most widely used indicator of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular risk is the common carotid artery intima-media thickness. Several studies have showed ...
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The BCAR1 locus in carotid intima-media thickness and atherosclerosis
... 2.3 Chapters 4 and 7: genotyping and association analyses 2.3.1 Study cohorts IMPROVE (IMT and IMT-Progression as Predictors of Vascular Events) is a prospective multicentre longitudinal study set up to investigate ...
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Causes of changes in carotid intima-media thickness: a literature review
... Conclusions This review of the recent literature presents preliminary evidence of certain associations between CIMT and trad- itional and novel CV risk factors, showing that CIMT is a good clinical predictor of early ...
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Association between carotid intima media thickness and metabolic syndrome
... The carotid intima media thickness was determined by imaging of common carotid artery using a high frequency B-mode ...both carotid arteries were performed with ultrasound ...
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Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Plaque in Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
... ABSTRACT Carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) has been shown to predict cardiovascular (CV) risk in multiple large ...of carotid segments evaluated (common carotid artery [CCA], ...
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An evaluation of the reproducibility of the measurement of the intima-media thickness of carotid arteries
... the carotid dilatation and the flow divider of the internal and external carotid ...internal carotid artery (ICA), was de- fined as the segment immediately distal to the tip of the flow divider over ...
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Study of relationship between carotid intima-media thickness and syntax score in patients with Coronary Artery Disease.
... II. Carotid intima media thickness represents the combined thickness of intima and media layers of carotid artery which can be assessed by B- mode ultrasonogram and ...
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Carotid and femoral intima-media thickness in adults with sickle cell disease
... 5-8 Carotid Intima-Media Thickness (CIMT) is a non- invasive, early marker of atherosclerosis, an increase in this measure may reflect an increase in cardiovascular ...evaluate Carotid ...
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To study the carotid intima media thickness in patients of fatty liver disease
... Background: Fatty liver is associated with several atherosclerotic risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidemia. It has also been related to insulin resistance. This association was found in NIDDM ...
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Correlation of hsCRP to carotid intima media thickness in acute ischemic stroke
... Indians. Carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) invasive test for assessment of atherosclerosis in different ...hsCRP, intima media thickness in patients with ischemic ...
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Carotid intima-media thickness is not related with clinical outcomes in young hypertensives
... We divided the patients into four groups according to age and hypertension. Clinical events, such as stroke and major adverse cerebrovascular events (MACE), were associated with old age, not hyperten- sion, which may ...
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CAROTID INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS IN PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
... common carotid arteries was found between the smoker and non-smoker hypertensive patients (p<0.02). [15] Our study gives some of important findings of public health importance. Almost 50% of patients in both cases ...
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Carotid intima-media thickness as a surrogate marker of cardiovascular disease in diabetes
... CIMT and cardiovascular risk factors A number of risk factors have been associated with the devel- opment of atherosclerosis in the carotid arteries. The findings that the risk factors that predict CIMT are those ...
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Factors associated with carotid intima-media thickness in patients on maintenance hemodialysis
... Dovepress Kuswardhani et al was one of the most consistent markers for CIMT. Older patients (over 60 years) had higher CIMT compared with the younger (20–29 years) group (0.305 mm vs 0.645 mm). 21 A cohort study ...
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Adiposity and carotid-intima media thickness in children and adolescents: a systematic review
... risk. Carotid intima media thickness (cIMT) is a measure of subclinical athero- sclerosis that is a surrogate for future cardiovascular dis- ease [13, ...
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Correlation of CD4 count with Carotid Intima Media Thickness in HIV patients
... the carotid artery compared with uninfected individuals due to inflammatory state present in HIV infected ...and CAROTID INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS as a marker of atherosclerosis in HIV ...
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Association between number of children and carotid intima-media thickness in Bangladesh
... * [email protected] Abstract Previous studies on the association between number of children and carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) were limited to Western populations. Pregnancy in women is ...
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Association of increased carotid intima-media thickness with the extent of coronary artery disease
... the intima-media thickness (IMT) in the peripheral vessels--carotid ...the intima-media is commonly recognized as theinitial stage in the development of ...
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Appropriateness of carotid plaque and intima-media thickness assessment in routine clinical practice
... addition, carotid IMT has proven to be a powerful tool for assessing cardiovascular ...small carotid plaque the personal physician should most likely inquire about inflammatory ...
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