[Prevalence and typological characteristics of atherosclerotic lesions in carotid arteries associated with metabolic syndrome as revealed by multislice computed tomography].
E A PraskurnichiyI I AleksandrovaT V KostychevaA N KnyazevPublished in: Klinicheskaia meditsina (2018)
All types of atherosclerotic plaques are roughly equally represented in the structure of atherosclerotic lesions of carotid arteries in patients with metabolic syndrome in the absence of type 2 diabetes. Diabetic patients had vascular lesions with especially high density of atherosclerotic plaques.