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Carotid intima-media thickness is evaluated as a potential screening option to address the challenges of cardiovascular risk assessment in clinical practice.
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CIMT may aid CV risk assessment in select patients; leaves open its routine adoption pending prospective validation.
The marked expansion of screening options has made the assessment of cardiovascular risk challenging for patients and their physicians. Which tests are
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Krumholz et al. (2012) studied this question. Carotid intima-media thickness is evaluated as a potential screening option to address the challenges of cardiovascular risk assessment in clinical practice.
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