Associations of carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) with risk factors and prevalent cardiovascular disease: Comparison of mean common carotid artery IMT with maximum internal carotid artery IMT

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1759-1768

  Polak, Joseph F ^a   Pencina, Michael J ^b   Meisner, Allison ^b   Pencina, Karol M ^b   Brown, Lisa S ^b   Wolf, Philip A ^b   D'Agostino, Ralph B ^b  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid artery; Disease prevalence; Intima media thickness; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOLOGY; DISEASES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AREA UNDER THE ROC CURVE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

HEMODYNAMICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTIMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TUNICA MEDIA;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 78649532612     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2010.29.12.1759     Document Type: Article

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