Intima-media thickness (IMT)
Allantoin as an independent marker associated with carotid intima-media thickness in subclinical atherosclerosis
... Allantoin is the main product of uric acid oxidation and was found to be augmented in atherosclerotic plaque in human autopsy and in animal models of atherosclerosis. Uric acid is abundant in human plasma and is prone to ...
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Carotid intima-media thickness and plaques in internal carotid artery as surrogate markers of lower limb arterial lesions in Chinese patients with diabetic foot
... In 1986, Pignoli and colleagues reported that arterial wall intima-media thickness (IMT) could be measured non-invasively by B-mode ultrasonography (17). Carotid artery IMT (CIMT) is being ...
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Normal flow-mediated vasodilatation of the brachial artery and carotid artery intima-media thickness in subclinical hypothyroidism
... Subclinical hypothyroidism (SHT) is a disease for which exact therapeutic approaches have not yet been established. Previous studies have suggested an association between SHT and coronary heart disease. Whether this ...
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Correlation between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels and carotid intima-media thickness in a Brazilian population descended from African slaves
... On the other hand, hyperparathyroidism secondary to chronic hypovitaminosis D has also been reported as an additional cardiovascular risk factor in this condition (31). Thus, studies attempting to correlate ...
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Methotrexate use, not interleukin 33, is associated with lower carotid intima-media thickness in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
... IMT: Intima- media thickness; LDL: Low-density lipoprotein; MTX: Methotrexate; OR: Odd ratios; RA: Rheumatoid arthritis; sST2: Soluble ST2 receptor; Th2: Type 2 T helper ...
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Cardiovascular risk factors and increased carotid intima-media thickness in young patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency
... 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21-OHD) is a com- mon autosomal recessive disorder associated with sig- nificant morbidity. Obesity, hypertension, and insulin resistance have been associated with 21-OHD, and these ...
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Analysis of cardiovascular risk and carotid intima-media thickness in patients with psoriasis,
... The Framingham score is calculated using information on age, LDL and HDL cholesterol, blood pressure, dia- betes mellitus, and smoking for men and women. From the sum of the points of each factor is estimated the CVR in ...
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Measurement of carotid intima-media thickness
... Objective: Fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF-23) is a phosphorus-regulating hormone and plays a role in the pathogenesis of myocardial hypertrophy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of FGF-23 levels ...
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Major Article Evaluation of inflammatory biomarkers, carotid intima- media thickness and cardiovascular risk in HIV-1 treatment-naive patients
... The intima-media thickness was directly associated with the age of the participants, a finding that corroborates those of the current literature, and shows that age is a risk factor for the increase ...
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Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Carotid Plaques Improves Prediction of Obstructive Angiographic Coronary Artery Disease in Women
... Carotid intima–media thickness (cIMT) is a well-described surrogate marker for cardiovascular disease that it is easily obtained by a noninvasive test and increased cIMT has been associated with ...
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Has Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Prognostic Impact in Patients with High Cardiovascular Risk? A Long-Term Cohort Study
... Carotid intima- media thickness has a relatively low sensitivity and specificity for the prediction of cardiovascular outcomes, and after adjustment for other independent predictors, it is no longer ...
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Predictors of subclinical atherosclerosis evaluated by carotid intima-media thickness in asymptomatic young women with type 1 diabetes mellitus
... Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the occurrence and clinical predictors of subclinical atherosclerosis in asymptomatic, young adult women with type 1 DM. Subjects and methods: The study included 45 women with type ...
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Early and current physical activity: relationship with intima-media thickness and metabolic variables in adulthood
... Intima-media thickness measurement To measure the carotid and femoral intima- media thickness (CIT and FIT, respectively), we used a Doppler ultrasound device (Toshiba Xario, ...
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Association of Cardiovascular Risk Factors with Carotid Intima Media Thickness in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis with Low Disease Activity Compared to Controls: A Cross-Sectional Study.
... Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology, affecting ~1% of the adult general population [1, 2]. Patients with RA have a higher all cause mortality risk than the general ...
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Can Metabolic Syndrome Presence Predict Carotid Intima-Media Thickness?
... FIGURE. Carotid and coronary artery disease have similar risk fac- tors, with identical pathophysiology, and there is a relationship between the atherosclerotic burden in both sites. 45 Thus, carotid ath- erosclerosis ...
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Evaluation of Epicardial Adipose Tissue by Echocardiography and Its Correlation with Aortic Velocity Propagation and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Patients of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
... Atherosclerosis damages the arterial walls by increasing arterial resistance, and it is well known that aortic stiffness is an independent marker of cardiovascular disease, predicting mortality and morbidity (Arnett et ...
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Carotid intima-media thickness, a marker of subclinical atherosclerosis, and particulate air pollution exposure: the meta-analytical evidence.
... Carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) is an important biomarker of subclinical athero- sclerosis.[13, 14] Increases in CIMT are associated with both prevalent and incident cardiovas- cular morbidity ...
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Visceral adipose tissue and carotid intima-media thickness in HIV-infected patients undergoing cART: a prospective cohort study
... We performed high-resolution B-mode and Doppler ultrasounds measures of the carotid arteries using a Philips iU22 machine (Philips Medical, The Netherlands), equipped with a 17–5 MHz high- frequency linear-array ...
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Carotid intima-media thickness in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil): a narrative review
... showed that insulin resistance was more strongly associated with CIMT values than with glucose levels, thus suggesting that a hor- monal effect on CIMT may exist. This may arise through a direct effect from insulin on ...
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Cigarette smoking in military pilots and intima-media thickness of the carotid arteries
... Cigarette smoking as the single cardiovascular risk factor was associated with the wall thickness of the carotid arteries in our study. This finding indicated that early atherosclerosis [r] ...
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