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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Carotid artery intima-media thickness"”.
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Carotid artery intima-media thickness measurement in subjects with type 2 diabetes in Cape Town, South Africa
… have less atherosclerosis as measured by Carotid Intima Media Thickness (CIMT) than non-black South Africans.
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Predictability of Cardiovascular Disease Event Rates by Common Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communties (ARIC) Study
<p><strong>Background:</strong> Carotid artery intima media thickness (IMT) is a non-invasive reliable predictor of the extent and severity of CVD. There is difficulty acquiring all measurements for validated three-site carotid IMT. More accessible one-site common carotid artery (CCA) IMT has not …
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The effect of sedentary behaviour on cardiovascular biomarkers in active, healthy adults
… ultrasound assessment of brachial and femoral artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD) and carotid artery intima-media thickness was conducted. Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity and middle cerebral artery blood flow velocity were assessed via applanation tonometry and transcranial Doppler …
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Admixture Mapping of Subclinical and Clinical Cardiovascular Disease among African Americans
… of subclinical measures of CVD such as carotid artery intima-media thickness (CIMT), and risk factors including the underlying genetic component of the disease. Admixed populations such as African Americans may have increased risk of disease as a result of the increased prevalence of a …
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Uraemic vascular damage and calcification in children with chronic kidney disease
… surrogate measures of vascular damage, carotid artery intima media thickness, pulse wave velocity and multi-slice CT scan, I have studied a cohort of children on chronic dialysis, and shown that those with mean parathyroid hormone levels above twice the upper limit of normal had …