Carotid Intima-Media Thickness
"Carotid Intima-Media Thickness" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A measurement of the thickness of the carotid artery walls. It is measured by B-mode ULTRASONOGRAPHY and is used as a surrogate marker for ATHEROSCLEROSIS.
| Descriptor ID |
D059168
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.350.850.150 E01.370.370.180 G09.330.210
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2011 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2012 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2013 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2014 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Carotid Intima-Media Thickness" by people in Profiles.
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Associations Between Flavonoid Intake and Subclinical Atherosclerosis: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2024 Nov; 44(11):2347-2359.
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The Impact of Kidney/Pancreas Transplantation on Peripheral Arterial Disease. Clin Transplant. 2024 Jul; 38(7):e15413.
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Longitudinal changes in the carotid arteries of head and neck cancer patients following radiation therapy: Results from a prospective serial imaging biomarker characterization study. Radiother Oncol. 2024 06; 195:110220.
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Type 2 Diabetes Modifies the Association of CAD Genomic Risk Variants With Subclinical Atherosclerosis. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2023 12; 16(6):e004176.
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Arterial stiffness but not carotid intima-media thickness progression precedes premature structural and functional cardiac damage in youth: A 7-year temporal and mediation longitudinal study. Atherosclerosis. 2023 09; 380:117197.
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Coronary heart disease and ischemic stroke polygenic risk scores and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in a diverse, population-based cohort study. PLoS One. 2023; 18(6):e0285259.
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Cumulative insulin resistance and hyperglycemia with arterial stiffness and carotid IMT progression in 1,779 adolescents: a 9-yr longitudinal cohort study. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2023 03 01; 324(3):E268-E278.
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Identifying Differences: A Key Step in Precision Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022 08 02; 11(15):e026600.
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Glycated Hemoglobin to Detect Subclinical Atherosclerosis in People Without Diabetes. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021 06 08; 77(22):2792-2795.
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Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death: The ARIC Study and the CHS. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020 10 20; 9(19):e016981.