conclusions high prevalence of the increased cimt in patients undergoing cabg highlights the significance of cimt measurement in early diagnosis of the systemic atherosclerosis. moreover, although traditional cardiovascular risk factors were important they could not explain the extension and the severity of cimt. it seems that some ultrasonographic features such as the associated carotid plaque...

ardiovascular risk factors are identifiable in childhood and are predictive of adulthood risk for coronary artery disease.1 Autopsy studies of youths have established a strong association between cardiovascular risk factors and early stages of coronary atherosclerosis.2 Longitudinal observation studies have shown that coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors measured in adolescence predict mar...

abstract introduction: non-invasive measurement of carotid intima media thickness (imt) has been noted as a marker for atherosclerosis and can serve as a predictor of cardiovascular accidents. the present study investigates the relationship between carotid imt and coronary artery disease (cad). method: this is a descriptive, analytical cross-sectional study of 300 individuals referring to isfah...

OBJECTIVES To examine whether the gender difference in coronary artery calcification, a measure of atherosclerotic plaque burden, is lost in type 1 diabetic patients, and whether abnormalities in established coronary heart disease risk factors explain this. BACKGROUND Type 1 diabetes abolishes the gender difference in coronary heart disease mortality because it is associated with a greater el...

Background: The value of noninvasive assessment of carotid plaque composition in identifying patients with high coronary risk remains elusive. We sought to determine whether and which carotid plaque components are associated with prior coronary events independent of traditional risk factors and plaque burden. Methods: Asymptomatic subjects with 50-79 % carotid stenosis by ultrasound were imaged...

conclusions according to the results of the study, abdominal obesity is as a risk factor for atherosclerosis. therefore, the use of a simple, low cost and high precision method for determining visceral obesity and preventing the cad is warranted. background despite efforts made by the medical community and public health officials for combating 76 obesity, the prevalence of overweight and obesit...

background: data on premature coronary artery disease (cad) are scarce. the tehran heart center's premature coronary atherosclerosis cohort study (thc-pac) is the first study of its kind in the middle east to assess major adverse cardiac events (mace) in young cad patients. methods: the cohort consists of cad patients, males ≤ 45 years old and females ≤ 55 years old. the participants are reside...

background: coronary artery disease is considered as the most common cause of death in all societies including iran. this study seeks to compare the new risk factors of coronary-artery diseases in obese adolescents and control group. methods: in this cross-sectional study, amongst the obese adolescents registered in the nutrition clinic of ghaem hospital, 80 individuals were selected. as the co...

It is known that in patients with ischemic heart disease, QT dispersion (QTd) predicts ventricular arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death and that major coronary risk factors such as smoking, diabetes mellitus, hypertension increase QTd. It is not clear whether, in coronary artery disease, QTd increases because of ischemia or co-existence of coronary risk factors. In this study, we aimed to invest...