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European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on July 30, 2007
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm320
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The relationship between carotid intima-media thickness and coronary atherosclerosis revisited

Alain Simon1,* and Gilles Chironi2

1 AP-HP, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Centre de Médecine Préventive Cardiovasculaire, 75015 Paris, France
2 Faculté de Médecine Paris Descartes, 75270 Paris, France

* Corresponding author. Tel: +33 1 43 95 93 91; fax: 33 1 45 39 11 93. E-mail address: alain.simon@brs.aphp.fr

This editorial refers to ‘Carotid intima-media thickness by B-mode ultrasound as surrogate of coronary atherosclerosis: correlation with quantitative coronary angiography and coronary intravascular ultrasound findings’ by M. Amato et al., doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm244

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Many clinical studies support the opinion that carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) assessed by B-mode ultrasound in extracranial carotid arteries, either in a single segment (common carotid) or in multiple segments (aggregate of measures in common carotids, bifurcations, and internal carotids), is a valuable mirror of coronary risk status and a worthwhile predictor of subsequent coronary heart disease (CHD), the leading source of cardiovascular death.1–3 Indeed, traditional and emerging risk factors for CHD have been found mostly to be closely correlated with increased carotid IMT.1 Also, increased carotid . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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