Is increased carotid intimal-medial thickness associated with coronary calcification in young and middle-aged adults?
Carotid IMT may provide complementary information to CAC for identifying young adults with premature atherosclerosis.
There is an association between increased carotid IMT and CAC and between cardiovascular risk factors and increased IMT in young adults. Carotid IMT may provide information in addition to CAC that can be used to identify young adults with premature atherosclerosis.
Davis et al. (Tue,) studied this question.