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May enhance MI risk stratification; leaves open whether plaque measures improve outcomes over IMT in prospective trials.
Noninvasive measures of extracoronary atherosclerosis are strong predictors of MI. The relatively crude measures directly assessing plaques in the carotid artery and abdominal aorta predict MI equally well as the more precisely measured carotid IMT.
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