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The Assessment of Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque among Young Patients with Familial Hypercholesterolemia

OBJECTIVE: Few data exist regarding when atherosclerotic changes occur among patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). Carotid ultrasonography is a non-invasive method of evaluating this issue. The present study (1) compared the clinical utilities of carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) and...

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Autores principales: Shibayama, Junichi, Tada, Hayato, Sakata, Kenji, Usui, Soichiro, Takamura, Masayuki, Kawashiri, Masa-aki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9683824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36328583
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.9249-21