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Usefulness of Carotid Ultrasonography for Risk Stratification of Cerebral and Cardiovascular Disease

Carotid ultrasonography is useful for the assessments of the risk stratification for stroke or coronary artery disease, because it is a simple, repeatable, and noninvasive procedure. The carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), which is assessed using carotid ultrasonography, is a widely used surrogate...

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Autores principales: Nezu, Tomohisa, Hosomi, Naohisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japan Atherosclerosis Society 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7585913/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32863299
http://dx.doi.org/10.5551/jat.RV17044