Population
182 eastern Finnish men aged 70 to 89 years
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30 years (follow-up examination)
Authors
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May support carotid imaging for risk assessment in elderly men; leaves open incremental value beyond traditional factors.
In elderly Finnish men, carotid intima-media thickness and nonmineralized atheromas are highly prevalent and significantly associated with clinical cardiovascular disease and long-term risk factors.
Salonen et al. (1994) studied this question.
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