Does the association between traditional cardiovascular risk factors and carotid intima-media thickness vary by carotid artery segment in young adults?
Traditional cardiovascular risk factors are more strongly associated with common carotid IMT than with IMT in the carotid bulb or internal carotid arteries in young adults.
In our cohort of relatively young white and black men and women, a greater proportion of the variability in common carotid IMT can be explained by traditional cardiovascular risk factors than for the carotid artery bulb and internal carotid arteries.
Polak et al. (Fri,) studied this question.