… carotid artery intima-media thickness (>75th percentile) as well as a plaque in the near wall
of R bulb (not shown). Per ARIC study data, adding cardiac intima-media thickness adds to …

… the diagnostic accuracies of carotid plaque and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT)
measured by B-mode ultrasonography for the prediction of coronary artery disease (CAD) events. …

… of carotid arteries provides measures of intima-media thickness (IMT) and plaques, both
widely used as surrogate measures of cardiovascular disease. Although IMT and plaques are …

… -media thickness of the CCAs and the presence of plaques, subjects for whom longitudinal
measurement of the CCA intima-media thickness … Subjects with discrete plaques in the CCAs (…

… in the atherosclerotic process, 7 even though plaques are seen infrequently at this … plaques
in the femoral or carotid bifurcations 9 and between IMT and number of carotid artery plaques…

… of carotid artery plaque … plaque: subjectively defined as present, 10 subjectively causing a
relative narrowing >25%, 12 measured as a continuous IMT value in the internal carotid artery (…

… of atherosclerotic plaques, … media thickness of the common carotid artery across a segment
of standardized length. Few have used percentiles of the site-specific intima-media thickness …

… to understand the significance of thicker IMT in the absence of plaque. … arteries and provides
measures of intima-media thickness (IMT), presence of stenosis, and presence of plaques. …

… occurrence in the carotid arteries of men with borderline … compared carotid artery intima-media
thickness and plaque occurrence in … of intima-media thickness and plaque occurrence to …

… influenced by which part of the arterial circumference is being insonated; (… media thickness
measurements could confound meaningful interpretation; (iii) uniform thickening of the arterial …