ReviewCardiovascular ultrasound2015
Causes of changes in carotid intima-media thickness: a literature review.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Effects of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists and Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors on Intima-Media Thickness: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of diabetes research · 2024Pooled it
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- Regional and demographic variations of Carotid artery Intima and Media Thickness (CIMT): A Systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Factors associated with carotid intima-media thickness progression in patients with asymptomatic hyperuricemia: insights from the PRIZE study.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Urinary TBARS as a Non-Invasive Proxy of Plasma Lipid Peroxidation in Essential Hypertension: A Translational Study on Vascular Oxidative-Inflammatory Burden.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Postpartum metabolomics profile predicts 8-years postdelivery women's subclinical atherosclerosis measures.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Prediction of hypertensive responses associated with interscalene block, a prospective cohort study.BMC anesthesiology · 2025Observational
- Acute sonographic changes in common carotid artery after NESA neuromodulation intervention in healthy adults: a randomized controlled clinical trial.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Impact of Fat Distribution and Metabolic Diseases on Cerebral Microcirculation: A Multimodal Study on Type 2 Diabetic and Obese Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Early Atherosclerosis in Familial Hypercholesterolemia Patients: Significance of Vascular Markers for Risk Stratification.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2024Article
- Eight-year change in carotid intima-media thickness and associated risk factors in adults with and without psoriasis - the ELSA-Brasil cohort study.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2023Article
- Brachial flow-mediated dilation and carotid intima-media thickness in glaucoma patients.BMC ophthalmology · 2022Article
- Effects of Apolipoprotein E polymorphism on carotid intima-media thickness, incident myocardial infarction and incident stroke.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Serum level of fetuin-A in systemic lupus erythematosus patients: association with atherosclerosis and disease activity.Clinical rheumatology · 2022Article
- Composite carotid intima-media thickness as a risk predictor of coronary heart disease in a selected population in Sri Lanka.PloS one · 2022Article
- Association of Smoking with the Blood Concentration of 25-Hydroxy Vitamin D and Testosterone at High and Low Altitudes.International journal of general medicine · 2022Article
- Exosomal Composition, Biogenesis and Profiling Using Point-of-Care Diagnostics-Implications for Cardiovascular Disease.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Review
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- Outcomes of Ischemic Stroke and Associated Factors Among Elderly Patients With Large-Artery Atherosclerosis: A Hospital-Based Follow-Up Study in China.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Atherosclerosis causes significant morbidity and mortality. Carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) predicts future cardiovascular and ischaemic stroke incidence. CIMT, a measure of atherosclerotic disease, can be reliably determined in vivo by carotid ultrasound. In this review, we determined that CIMT is associated with traditional cardiovascular risk factors such as age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol consumption, habitual endurance exercise, blood pressure, dyslipidemia, dietary patterns, risk-lowering drug therapy, glycemia, hyperuricemia, obesity-related anthropometric parameters, obesity and obesity-related diseases. We also found that CIMT is associated with novel risk factors, including heredity, certain genotypic indices, anthropometric cardiovascular parameters, rheumatoid arthritis, immunological diseases, inflammatory cytokines, lipid peroxidation, anthropometric hemocyte parameters, infectious diseases, vitamin D, matrix metalloproteinases, and other novel factors and diseases. However, the conclusions are inconsonant; the underlying causes of these associations remain to be further explored.
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