Are common and internal carotid artery intima-media thickness associated with risk factors and prevalent cardiovascular disease?
Both common and internal carotid artery intima-media thickness are independently associated with prevalent cardiovascular disease, though their associations with risk factors differ slightly.
Associations of risk factors with CCA and ICA IMT are slightly different, and both are independently associated with prevalent CVD. Their value for predicting incident cardiovascular events needs to be compared in outcome studies.
Polak et al. (Wed,) studied this question.