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,
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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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| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Carotid Intima-Media Thickness" by people in Profiles.
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Williams KB, Horst M, Young M, Pascua C, Puffenberger EG, Brigatti KW, Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Shuldiner AR, Gidding S, Strauss KA, Chowdhury D. Clinical characterization of familial hypercholesterolemia due to an amish founder mutation in Apolipoprotein B. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2022 03 17; 22(1):109.
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Hartasanchez SA, Flores-Torres M, Monge A, Yunes E, Rodriguez B, Cantu-Brito C, Colaci D, Lamadrid-Figueroa H, Lopez-Ridaura R, Lajous M. Pregnancy Loss and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Mexican Women. J Am Heart Assoc. 2018 01 13; 7(2).
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Niemczyk NA, Catov JM, Barinas-Mitchell E, McClure CK, Roberts JM, Tepper PG, Sutton-Tyrrell K. Nulliparity is associated with less healthy markers of subclinical cardiovascular disease in young women with overweight and obesity. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2015 May; 23(5):1085-91.
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Kupetsky-Rincon EA, Li Q, Uitto J. Magnesium reduces carotid intima-media thickness in a mouse model of pseudoxanthoma elasticum: a novel treatment biomarker. Clin Transl Sci. 2012 Jun; 5(3):259-64.
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Somers EC, Zhao W, Lewis EE, Wang L, Wing JJ, Sundaram B, Kazerooni EA, McCune WJ, Kaplan MJ. Type I interferons are associated with subclinical markers of cardiovascular disease in a cohort of systemic lupus erythematosus patients. PLoS One. 2012; 7(5):e37000.