Intima-media thickness at the near or far wall of the common carotid artery in cardiovascular risk assessment.
Lisa SeekircherLena TschidererLars LindMaya S SafarovaMaryam KavousiMohammad Arfan IkramEva LonnSalim YusufDiederick E GrobbeeJohn J P KasteleinFrank L J VisserenMatthew WaltersJesse DawsonPeter HigginsStefan AgewallAlberico CatapanoEric de GrootMark A EspelandGerhard KlingenschmidDianna MaglianoMichael H OlsenDavid PreissDirk SanderMichael SkiltonDorota A Zozulińska-ZiółkiewiczMuriel P C GrootemanPeter J BlankestijnKazuo KitagawaShuhei OkazakiMaria V ManziCostantino MancusiRaffaele IzzoMoise DesvarieuxTatjana RundekHertzel C GersteinMichiel L BotsMichael J SweetingMatthias W LorenzPeter WilleitPublished in: European heart journal open (2023)
The associations of near and far wall CCA-IMT with incident CVD were positive, approximately linear, and similarly strong. Improvement in risk discrimination was highest when CCA-IMT was measured at both walls.