Does carotid atherosclerosis predict subsequent coronary events in outpatients with atherothrombosis?
Carotid atherosclerosis independently predicts future coronary events in outpatients with symptomatic vascular disease, providing incremental prognostic value.
Carotid atherosclerosis was an independent predictor of coronary events across all types of symptomatic vascular disease and had an incremental effect on risk regardless of risk factors or location of vessel disease.
Sirimarco et al. (Fri,) studied this question.