[PDF] Top 20 Ultrasound evaluation of carotid intima-media thickness in children

... the carotid artery bulb with a specially designed computer program (Philips Qlab ...number of acquired data points, and ...analysis of the two-dimensional vessel structure represented in an US ... See full document

... College of Rheumatology clas- sification criteria for RA, had no history of cardiovas- cular (CV) disease, and had at least one year of follow- -up after disease diagnosis were ...because of ... See full document

... presence of subclinical athero- sclerosis in our RA ...fluctuations in IL-33 and sST2 levels during the course of the disease, a single measurement may not accurately reflect the role ... See full document

... seen in diabetic patients, and a positive association between BMI, visceral adiposity and waist circumference have been reported (Lau & Muniandy ...EFT in NIDDM patients might be related to altered ... See full document

... results of studies correlating serum vitamin D levels with markers of subclinical atherosclerosis have been ...aim of this study was to correlate serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] ... See full document

... context of its inherent limita- ...predicament of publication bias and the fact that only studies with positive results are ...number of included publications was small (n = 5), they comprised a ... See full document

... duration of type 1 DM (19,20,36). In these studies, the duration of the disease was shorter than that in our study, which might explain our ...reported in other studies (19,20). Our ... See full document

... markers of adiposity and common carotid artery (CIMT) in obese children born small for gestational age (SGA) versus appropriate for gestational age (AGA), to establish cut-off values for CIMT ... See full document

... components of plasma lipopro- teins ...risk of vascular disease [13–17]. In the Apolipoprotein-related Mortality Risk Study (AMORIS) [14], apoB was found to be a stronger marker of ... See full document

... association of childhood SEP and youth SEP with IMT dis- appeared after considering adulthood SEP in the multivariate ...SEP in early life could increase the chances of subsequent exposure ... See full document

... disease of unknown etiology, affecting ~1% of the adult general population [1, ...cause of death is cardiovascular dis- ease (CVD) [3–5]. The evidence of the excess cardiovascular risk ... See full document

... on intima-media thickness and metabolic variables than current physical ...and intima-media thickness measures in ...composed of 55 healthy subjects of both ... See full document

... classification of arteries into “normal” or “abnormal” pat- terns significantly influenced variables such as uric acid and metabolic syndrome components (presence of diabetes, high fasting blood glucose ... See full document

... functional evaluation of H6PDH P554L variant The in vitro effect of P554L on enzyme activity was assessed as described previously ...[15]. In brief, wild-type (WT) and mutant (P554L) ... See full document

... shown in figure 2.9 (b). The bifurcation has turbulent hemodynamics of the blood flow and plaque formation usually occurs at this ...segmentation of plaques in this site, and also for ... See full document

... association of the dipping pattern with PWV or other arterial stiffness markers and none in healthy ...study in type 1 diabetic children found that systolic dipping was a signi ficant predictor ... See full document

... rate in the catheterization of IJV is lower and the number of complications is higher in children than among adults due to the smaller size of the vein, the close proximity ... See full document

... SBP in CAH patients in both obese and normal weight individuals ...CIMT. In a longitudinal evaluation of nearly 100 Latin-American children di- agnosed with metabolic syndrome, ... See full document

... progression of atherosclerosis [23]. We evaluated the progression of cIMT at the end of the one year follow-up in a cohort of HIV-infected patients under cART, treated for the ... See full document

... layer of smooth muscle cells, but also into the lumen of the blood ...nitrogen of the guanidine group of the L-arginine amino acid by the action of the endothelial NO synthase enzyme ... See full document