… at younger ages, 7 any study of plaque pathology in relation to age should consider … carotid
plaque histology in relation to age, smoking, and other vascular risk factors in symptomatic …

… carotid atherosclerosis. Stratified analysis by sex and age showed effect modifications by age
on cigarette smoking… of the very low prevalence of symptomatic patients in our series (only …

… standardization of the carotid plaque images was used. This … mellitus, hypertension, and
smoking habit were recorded. All … risk factors such as age, smoking, hypertension, diabetes …

… Smoking is associated with younger age at CEA, suggesting that it may play a role … smokers,
which suggests that the mechanism of plaque instability seems to be unrelated to smoking …

Background and Purpose— The purpose of this study was to analyze the association
between morphological characteristics of human carotid plaques and patient’s sex, age, and …

… morphology and patient-related variables was assessed by multivariate analysis, plaque
morphology being the dependent variable and age, sex, degree of internal or common …

… No significant association was found between symptomatic carotid disease and smoking, …
have an echolucent plaque suggesting an age-related association with plaque maturation. …

… smoking results in normalization or in deceleration of the normal age-related development
of carotid plaque … characteristics and cerebral symptoms in 376 carotid artery plaques. Ann …

… age and plaque inflammation has not yet been fully clarified. The aim of our study was to
determine if age-dependent plaque … between smoking status and the prevalence of symptoms …

… smokers younger than age 55. Both carotid artery plaque thickness and pack-years of smoking
… risk is less clear among patients with symptomatic carotid stenoses. As the authors point …