A comparison of intima media thickness in the common carotid artery, the bulb and plaque area as predictions of incident atherosclerotic events

IMT-CCA (borderline significant) and IMT-bulb at baseline were related to the change in plaque area over the 5 years (Spearman ́s rho = 0.13 and p -value = 0.050 for IMT-CCA and rho = 0.21 and p -value = 0.0036 for IMT-bulb.

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This is not the largest study performed on carotid artery ultrasound, but it is evident that the sample size and number of events collected during the follow-up period was sufficient to result in highly significant associations for plaque area, the major measurement of atherosclerosis in the carotid arteries.

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