Combined effect of inter-arm systolic blood pressure difference and carotid artery plaque on cardiovascular diseases and mortality: A prospective cohort study.

However, the presence of carotid plaque alone in our study was marginally significant in predicting cardiovascular risk, suggesting carotid plaque alone may be limited in predicting CVD in the Chinese general population, and the reason for this result may be related to a smaller sample size of this group with carotid plaque alone and our study included more males.

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