Lisa Seekircher, Lena Tschiderer, Lars Lind, Maya S Safarova, Maryam Kavousi, M Arfan Ikram, Eva Lonn, Salim Yusuf, Diederick E Grobbee, John J P Kastelein, Frank L J Visseren, Matthew Walters, Jesse Dawson, Peter Higgins, Stefan Agewall, Alberico Catapano, Eric de Groot, Mark A Espeland, Gerhard Klingenschmid, Dianna Magliano, Michael H Olsen, David Preiss, Dirk Sander, Michael Skilton, Dorota A Zozulińska-Ziółkiewicz, Muriel P C Grooteman, Peter J Blankestijn, Kazuo Kitagawa, Shuhei Okazaki, Maria V Manzi, Costantino Mancusi, Raffaele Izzo, Moise Desvarieux, Tatjana Rundek, Hertzel C Gerstein, Michiel L Bots, Michael J Sweeting, Matthias W Lorenz, Peter Willeit
AIMS: Current guidelines recommend measuring carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) at the far wall of the common carotid artery (CCA). We aimed to precisely quantify associations of near vs. far wall CCA-IMT with the risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD, defined as coronary heart disease or stroke) and their added predictive values. METHODS AND RESULTS: We analysed individual records of 41 941 participants from 16 prospective studies in the Proof-ATHERO consortium {mean age 61 years [standard deviation (SD) = 11]; 53% female; 16% prior CVD}...
September 2023: Eur Heart J Open