"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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| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Carotid Intima-Media Thickness" by people in Profiles.
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Association of C-Terminal Pro-Endothelin-1 with Mortality in the Population-Based KORA F4 Study. Vasc Health Risk Manag. 2022; 18:335-346.
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Associations of carotid intima media thickness with gene expression in whole blood and genetically predicted gene expression across 48 tissues. Hum Mol Genet. 2022 03 31; 31(7):1171-1182.
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