Objective To examine the relationship between carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) at age
30 and birth characteristics, growth during infancy, and breastfeeding duration, among …

Background High birth weight or childhood overweight increases the risk of high carotid
intima‐media thickness (cIMT) in childhood. However, no studies have assessed the …

Background The first 1,000 days of life, ie, from conception to age 2 years, could be a critical
period for cardiovascular health. Increased carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) is a …

Aim: To measure carotid intima‐media thickness (cIMT) in obese, overweight and normal‐
weight Portuguese adolescents, to evaluate the association between body weight early …

OBJECTIVES: To determine the association between birth weight and carotid artery intima-
media thickness (CIMT), a measure of atherogenesis, in a population of 11-year-old …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk is associated with prenatal and infancy growth. However,
the relative importance of these time periods for the CVD risk is uncertain. To elucidate this …

Objective Early life is an important period for determining future risk of cardiovascular
disease. Carotid extra-medial thickness is a novel noninvasive measure that estimates …

Background Early life factors may predispose an offspring to cardiovascular disease in later
life; relevance of these associations may extend to‟ healthy” people in Western populations …

Background: Early exposure to cardiovascular risk factors creates a chronic inflammatory
state that could damage the endothelium followed by thickening of the carotid intima-media …

Objective: To contribute to the assessment of normal parameters of carotid intima-media
thickness (CIMT) in healthy adolescents. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted …