Changes in carotid artery intima-media thickness during the cardiac cycle - a comparative study in early childhood, mid-childhood, and adulthood.

CONCLUSIONS: Inconsistent timing of CIMT measurement during the cardiac cycle is an avoidable source of imprecision, especially in children, in whom inter-individual differences are smallest. As CIMT is largest at end-diastole, this is the most appropriate time point for consistent and comparable measurements to be made. PMID: 28332441 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: VASA. Zeitschrift fur Gefasskrankheiten. Journal for Vascular Diseases - March 23, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Rueb K, Mynard J, Liu R, Wake M, Vuillermin P, Ponsonby AL, Zannino D, Burgner DP Tags: Vasa Source Type: research