Coronary Artery Calcification, Intima-Media Thickness, and Ankle-Brachial Index Are Complementary Stroke Predictors [Clinical Sciences]

Conclusions—
CAC, CIMT, and ABI provide complementary information about stroke risk. ABI, which is distinctive in a small subpopulation, had the highest and CIMT, which is distributed across a larger range of values, had the lowest predictive value.

Source: Stroke - August 25, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Gronewold, J., Bauer, M., Lehmann, N., Mahabadi, A. A., Kalsch, H., Weimar, C., Berger, K., Moebus, S., Jockel, K.-H., Erbel, R., Hermann, D. M., on behalf of the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study Investigative Group Tags: Imaging, Computerized tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Doppler ultrasound, Transcranial Doppler etc., Risk Factors for Stroke Clinical Sciences Source Type: research