Clinical usefulness of carotid ultrasound to improve stroke risk assessment: Ten-year results from the Carotid Atherosclerosis Progression Study (CAPS)

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 837-843

  Ziegelbauer, Kathrin ^a   Schaefer, Carolin ^a   Steinmetz, Helmuth ^a   Sitzer, Matthias ^a,b   Lorenz, Matthias W ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Klinikum Herford   (Germany)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; Carotid arteries; individual risk prediction; intima media thickness; plaque; reclassification; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; ULTRASOUND;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERIES; INDIVIDUAL RISK PREDICTION; INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; PLAQUE; RECLASSIFICATION; STROKE;

ADULT; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84884137309     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2047487312449589     Document Type: Article

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