The relationship between carotid artery lesions (CALs), with and without acoustic shadowing
(AS) as an index of arterial mineralization, and incident coronary heart disease (CHD) was …

In a cross-sectional study of 8695 men and women free of clinical CVD, aged 45–64 years at
the 1987–1989 baseline Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study exam, we …

Background and Purpose—We examined the relationship of carotid artery lesions (CALs),
with and without acoustic shadowing (AS), to incident ischemic stroke events in the …

To investigate the association of gender, ethnicity, and several cardiovascular risk factors
with carotid artery plaque and plaque with acoustic shadowing in a population‐based …

Objective Duplex ultrasonography (DUS) has been the mainstay for diagnosing carotid
artery stenosis and is often the sole diagnostic modality used prior to intervention. Highly …

There is little information on the distribution of atherosclerotic lesions of the extracranial
carotid artery wall in free-living populations. The purpose of the present study was to …

The reproducibility in the identification of carotid artery lesions using B-mode ultrasound was
studied in a large random sample selected from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities …

Background and aims It is not known if ultrasound carotid plaque features are associated
with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors or if they predict future CVD events. Methods …

Background We hypothesized that measures of common carotid artery echolucency and
grayscale texture features were associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors …

Background and Purpose—There is scant population-based evidence regarding
extracranial carotid plaque surface irregularity and ischemic stroke. Using a prospective …