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 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2014 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2017 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 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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Metformin and carotid intima-media thickness in never-smokers with type 1 diabetes: The REMOVAL trial. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2021 06; 23(6):1371-1378.
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Exenatide once-weekly improves metabolic parameters, endothelial dysfunction and carotid intima-media thickness in patients with type-2 diabetes: An 8-month prospective study. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2019 Mar; 149:163-169.
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Association of circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D and parathyroid hormone with carotid intima media thickness in children and adolescents with excess weight. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2019 04; 188:117-123.
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Burden of subclinical carotid atherosclerosis and vascular risk factors among people living with HIV in Ghana. J Neurol Sci. 2019 02 15; 397:103-111.
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Apolipoprotein-defined lipoprotein subclasses, serum apolipoproteins, and carotid intima-media thickness in T1D. J Lipid Res. 2018 05; 59(5):872-883.
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Effects of vitamin D supplementation on carotid intima-media thickness in HIV-infected youth. Virulence. 2018 01 01; 9(1):294-305.
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Body mass index trajectories in childhood is predictive of cardiovascular risk: results from the 23-year longitudinal Georgia Stress and Heart study. Int J Obes (Lond). 2018 04; 42(4):923-925.
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Cardiovascular and metabolic effects of metformin in patients with type 1 diabetes (REMOVAL): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2017 08; 5(8):597-609.
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Arterial stiffness in HIV-infected youth and associations with HIV-related variables. Virulence. 2017 10 03; 8(7):1265-1273.
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Metformin in adults with type 1 diabetes: Design and methods of REducing with MetfOrmin Vascular Adverse Lesions (REMOVAL): An international multicentre trial. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2017 04; 19(4):509-516.