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Carotid wall thickness - methodological aspects of assessment in hypertensive patients
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Abstract
The results of the studies analyzing relationship between blood pressure values, carotid artery wall thickness and progression of carotid atherosclerosis, as well as the relation between IMT (intima media thickness) value and the cardiovascular risk caused an inclusion of an IMT measurements into the panel of tests describing target organ damage in hypertensive patients (recommendation of the European Society of Hypertension and European Society of Cardiology).
In order to make the measurement of IMT a common diagnostic tool in the risk stratification of unfavorable cardiovascular events, it seems to be important to standardize the methodology i.e. the measuring methods (location and number of measurements) and the images analysis (manual and automatic method).
Abstract
The results of the studies analyzing relationship between blood pressure values, carotid artery wall thickness and progression of carotid atherosclerosis, as well as the relation between IMT (intima media thickness) value and the cardiovascular risk caused an inclusion of an IMT measurements into the panel of tests describing target organ damage in hypertensive patients (recommendation of the European Society of Hypertension and European Society of Cardiology).
In order to make the measurement of IMT a common diagnostic tool in the risk stratification of unfavorable cardiovascular events, it seems to be important to standardize the methodology i.e. the measuring methods (location and number of measurements) and the images analysis (manual and automatic method).
Keywords
intima-media thickness; hypertension; cardiovascular risk stratification
Title
Carotid wall thickness - methodological aspects of assessment in hypertensive patients
Journal
Issue
Article type
Review paper
Pages
55-60
Published online
2005-02-04
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Bibliographic record
Nadciśnienie tętnicze 2005;9(1):55-60.
Keywords
intima-media thickness
hypertension
cardiovascular risk stratification
Authors
Aleksander Kwater
Tomasz Grodzicki