Key result
Noninvasive cardiac imaging techniques are valuable for assessing early cardiovascular risk and end-organ injury in adolescents and young adults.
Why the study?
Does noninvasive cardiac imaging improve risk assessment and understanding of early chronic heart disease in adolescents and young adults?
Does noninvasive cardiac imaging improve risk assessment and understanding of early chronic heart disease in adolescents and young adults?
Noninvasive imaging techniques are valuable tools for assessing early cardiovascular end-organ injury and risk in adolescents and young adults.
May aid early risk assessment in adolescents and young adults; leaves open prospective trials to guide adoption.
Noninvasive imaging of cardiovascular end organ injury has now been applied to adolescents and young adults to better understand the early natural history of chronic heart disease. Echocardiography, assessment of endothelial function, and subclinical atherosclerosis imaging using carotid intima-media thickness measures and coronary calcium identified on computed tomography scanning have all been applied at young ages to demonstrate adverse effects of cardiovascular risk factors. Intervention trials using these techniques as end points may improve understanding of the natural history of acquired cardiovascular disease.
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Samuel S. Gidding (2008) conducted a review in Cardiovascular risk. Noninvasive cardiac imaging was evaluated. Noninvasive cardiac imaging techniques are valuable for assessing early cardiovascular risk and end-organ injury in adolescents and young adults.
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