Common carotid intima-media thickness measurements do not improve cardiovascular risk prediction in individuals with elevated blood pressure: The USE-IMT collaboration

Hypertension

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1173-1181

  Bots, Michiel L ^a   Groenewegen, Karlijn A ^a   Anderson, Todd J ^b   Britton, Annie R ^c   Dekker, Jacqueline M ^d   Engström, Gunnar ^e   Evans, Greg W ^f   De Graaf, Jacqueline ^g   Grobbee, Diederick E ^a,t   Hedblad, Bo ^e   Hofman, Albert ^h   Holewijn, Suzanne ^g   Ikeda, Ai ⁱ   Kavousi, Maryam ^h   Kitagawa, Kazuo ^j   Kitamura, Akihiko ⁱ   Ikram, M Arfan ^h   Lonn, Eva M ^k   Lorenz, Matthias W ^l   Mathiesen, Ellisiv B ^m   Nijpels, Giel ^d   Okazaki, Shuhei ^j   O'Leary, Daniel H ⁿ   Polak, Joseph F ⁿ   Price, Jacqueline F ^o   Robertson, Christine ^o   Rembold, Christopher M ^p   Rosvall, Maria ^e   Rundek, Tatjana ^s   Salonen, Jukka T ^q   Sitzer, Matthias ^l   Stehouwer, Coen D A ^r   Franco, Oscar H ^h   Peters, Sanne A E ^a   Den Ruijter, Hester M ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

ⁱ OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

^j OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

ⁿ TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^p UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^q MAS Metabolic Analytical Services Oy   (Finland)

^r MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY MALAYA MEDICAL CENTRE   (Malaysia)

more..

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid intima media thickness; Primary prevention; Prognosis; Risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84902268214     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.113.02683     Document Type: Article

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