Incident Stroke Is Associated With Common Carotid Artery Diameter and Not Common Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness | Zendy

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Incident Stroke Is Associated With Common Carotid Artery Diameter and Not Common Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness

Author(s) -

Joseph F. Polak,

Ralph L. Sacco,

Wendy S. Post,

Dhananjay Vaidya,

Martinson Arnan,

Daniel H. O’Leary

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.114.004850

Subject(s) - medicine , common carotid artery , cardiology , stroke (engine) , hazard ratio , intima media thickness , confidence interval , proportional hazards model , atrial fibrillation , carotid arteries , mechanical engineering , engineering

The common carotid artery interadventitial diameter is measured on ultrasound images as the distance between the media-adventitia interfaces of the near and far walls. It is associated with common carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) and left ventricular mass and might therefore also have an association with incident stroke.

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