Does carotid-wall intima-media thickness measurement improve the classification of risk of cardiovascular disease in the Framingham Offspring Study cohort?
Maximum internal carotid artery intima-media thickness and plaque presence modestly improve cardiovascular risk classification.
The maximum internal and mean common carotid-artery intima-media thicknesses both predict cardiovascular outcomes, but only the maximum intima-media thickness of (and presence of plaque in) the internal carotid artery significantly (albeit modestly) improves the classification of risk of cardiovascular disease in the Framingham Offspring Study cohort. (Funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.).
Polak et al. (Wed,) studied this question.