Carotid atherosclerosis is a stronger predictor of myocardial infarction in women than in men: a 6-year follow-up study of 6226 persons: the Tromsø Study

SH Johnsen, EB Mathiesen, O Joakimsen, E Stensland… - Stroke, 2007 - Am Heart Assoc
… To study whether sex was an effect modifier in the association between carotid atherosclerosis
and MI, the possible interactions between sex and our markers of carotid atherosclerosis (…

Coronary and carotid atherosclerosis: similarities and differences

F Jashari, P Ibrahimi, R Nicoll, G Bajraktari, P Wester… - Atherosclerosis, 2013 - Elsevier
… At three year follow-up, the rates of myocardial infarction, stroke, vascular death or
rehospitalization are 25.5% for patients with symptomatic disease in one vascular system and 40.5% …

Carotid atherosclerotic plaque instability in patients with acute myocardial infarction

A Rossi, L Franceschini, M Fusaro, M Cicoira… - International journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
… unstable atherosclerotic plaque also in other arterial locations such as the carotid arteries. …
phase of myocardial infarction are more likely to have unstable carotid plaques compared …

Computer aided diagnosis of coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction and carotid atherosclerosis using ultrasound images: a review

O Faust, UR Acharya, VK Sudarshan, R San Tan… - Physica Medica, 2017 - Elsevier
… of CAD, MI and carotid atherosclerosis, we highlight that these … For the diagnosis of carotid
atherosclerosis, the invasive … on CAD, MI and carotid atherosclerosis. Section 3 introduces the …

Carotid atherosclerosis predicts future myocardial infarction but not venous thromboembolism: the Tromsø study

EM Hald, WM Lijfering, EB Mathiesen… - … , and vascular biology, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
… of carotid atherosclerosis on the risk of myocardial infarction (MI) … In this study, carotid
atherosclerosis was strongly associated … Our findings suggest that carotid atherosclerosis does not …

Carotid bruits as a prognostic indicator of cardiovascular death and myocardial infarction: a meta-analysis

CA Pickett, JL Jackson, BA Hemann, JE Atwood - The Lancet, 2008 - thelancet.com
… Although carotid bruits are deemed to be markers of generalised atherosclerosis, they are
poor … We investigated whether a carotid bruit predicts myocardial infarction and cardiovascular …

A myocardial infarction genetic risk score is associated with markers of carotid atherosclerosis

V Hamrefors, B Hedblad, G Engström… - Journal of internal …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… Association between genotype scores and carotid plaques. To … carotid atherosclerotic
lesions, the genotype scores were related to the occurrence of significant (≥10 mm 2 ) carotid

Carotid atherosclerosis and risk of subsequent coronary event in outpatients with atherothrombosis

G Sirimarco, P Amarenco, J Labreuche, PJ Touboul… - Stroke, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
Carotid atherosclerosis was associated with increased risk, even among patients with
previous myocardial infarction … with previous stroke but no known myocardial infarction (P<0.001). …

Carotid-artery intima and media thickness as a risk factor for myocardial infarction and stroke in older adults

DH O'leary, JF Polak, RA Kronmal… - … England Journal of …, 1999 - Mass Medical Soc
… Although it reported only far-wall measurements, the Atherosclerosis Risk in … carotid artery
and the internal carotid artery is strongly associated with the risk of myocardial infarction and …

[HTML][HTML] Exercise and carotid atherosclerosis

NPE Kadoglou, F Iliadis, CD Liapis - European Journal of Vascular and …, 2008 - Elsevier
myocardial infarction. In the Cardiovascular Health Study, the 6-year risk for myocardial
infarction or … highest quintile of carotid intima-media thickness (IMT). The published prevalence of …