Common Carotid Intima Media Thickness and Ankle-Brachial Pressure Index Correlate with Local but Not Global Atheroma Burden: A Cross Sectional Study Using Whole Body Magnetic Resonance Angiography

BACKGROUND: Common carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) and ankle brachial pressure index (ABPI) are used as surrogate marker of atherosclerosis, and have been shown to correlate with arterial stiffness, however their correlation with global atherosclerotic burden has not been previously assessed....

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Hauptverfasser: Weir-McCall, Jonathan R., Khan, Faisel, Lambert, Matthew A., Adamson, Carly L., Gardner, Michael, Gandy, Stephen J., Ramkumar, Prasad Guntur, Belch, Jill J. F., Struthers, Allan D., Rauchhaus, Petra, Morris, Andrew D., Houston, J. Graeme
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science 2014
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4059661/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24933122
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099190
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