Aging, diabetes, and smoking are strongly associated with carotid atherosclerosis, with men being more susceptible to the cumulative impact of multiple risk factors.
Risk factor associations with carotid IMT appear sex-specific and cumulative in men; hypothesis-generating and should not change practice without prospective data.
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