Background: Early subclinical atherosclerosis has been mainly researched in carotid
arteries. The potential value of femoral arteries for improving the predictive capacity of …

OBJECTIVES: To examine if plaques in the carotid and femoral arteries were associated
with cardiovascular events during a 10-year follow-up independently of usual risk factors for …

Background Recent studies have suggested that knowledge of the extent of subclinical
atherosclerosis may improve prognostic information in subjects at risk of cardiovascular …

Ethnic differences in non-invasive measures of atherosclerosis are increasingly being
reported, but the relationship of these measures to each other has not been widely explored …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to compare carotid plaque burden, carotid intima-
media thickness (cIMT), ankle-brachial index (ABI), and abdominal aortic diameter (AAD) to …

Background Coronary artery calcium (CAC) and carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) are
noninvasive measures of atherosclerosis that consensus panels have recommended as …

Objectives: Our aim was to identify risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) events
among asymptomatic persons with low (≤ 130 mg/dl) low-density lipoprotein cholesterol …

BACKGROUND: The cardiovascular (CV) risk assigned by the Framingham risk score (FRS)
misses many subjects destined for CV events. Coronary artery calcification (CAC) as …

Objective—The goal of this study was to compare and contrast coronary artery calcium
(CAC) with abdominal aortic calcium (AAC) in terms of their associations with traditional and …

Background—In the Cardiovascular Health Study, subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD)
predicted CVD events in older adults. The extent to which this measure or its components …