Strong and Significant Relationships Between Aggregation of Major Coronary Risk Factors and the Acceleration of Carotid Atherosclerosis in the General Population of a Japanese City | Zendy

Toshifumi Mannami | Zendy; Shunroku Baba | Zendy; Jun Ogata | Zendy

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Strong and Significant Relationships Between Aggregation of Major Coronary Risk Factors and the Acceleration of Carotid Atherosclerosis in the General Population of a Japanese City

Author(s) -

Toshifumi Mannami,

Shunroku Baba,

Jun Ogata

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinte.160.15.2297

Subject(s) - medicine , carotid ultrasonography , cardiology , blood pressure , risk factor , stenosis , diastole , population , coronary atherosclerosis , carotid arteries , coronary artery disease , environmental health

Carotid arterial intimal-medial thickness (IMT) measured by high-resolution B-mode ultrasonography has come to be used as a noninvasive surrogate end point to measure progression of atherosclerosis. However, there are no detailed data on the relationship between aggregation of coronary risk factors and carotid atherogenesis.

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