Autopsy Studies in Atherosclerosis

Autopsy Studies in Atherosclerosis

Gross lesions of atheroselerosis in many arterial sites were graded in 500 consecutive autopsies in a general hospital. The grading system used took into account both the total area of intimal involvement and the severity of individual lesions. The first report analyzes the distribution and severity of atherosclerosis in the 347 men and women of the study group who died without morphologic evid...

Autopsy Studies in India

Designing verbal autopsy studies

BACKGROUND Verbal autopsy analyses are widely used for estimating cause-specific mortality rates (CSMR) in the vast majority of the world without high-quality medical death registration. Verbal autopsies -- survey interviews with the caretakers of imminent decedents -- stand in for medical examinations or physical autopsies, which are infeasible or culturally prohibited. METHODS AND FINDINGS ...

Coronary atherosclerosis in diabetes mellitus: a population-based autopsy study.

OBJECTIVES The study was conducted to test the hypothesis that the prevalence of coronary atherosclerosis is greater among diabetic than among nondiabetic individuals and is similar for diabetic individuals without clinical coronary artery disease (CAD) and nondiabetics with clinical CAD. BACKGROUND Persons with diabetes but without clinical CAD encounter cardiovascular mortality similar to n...

Autopsy prevalence of coronary atherosclerosis in patients with fatal stroke.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Myocardial infarction (MI) is the leading cause of long-term mortality in patients with stroke, yet the prevalence of coronary atherosclerosis in these individuals is unknown. The objective of the study was to establish the prevalence of coronary atherosclerosis and MI after fatal stroke. METHODS Using an autopsy data bank, we studied the prevalence of coronary plaques ...