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, 2, 3) . Carotid intima–media thickness (IMT) measured by ultrasound has in several epidemiological studies been demonstrated to be associated with prevalent CVD and is considered an independent predictor of future CVD events like myocardial
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, through vascular imaging, has been suggested as a means to enhance cardiovascular risk assessment ( 9 ). Carotid artery intima-media thickness (CIMT) measurement has increasingly been used as a marker of atherosclerosis in many studies ( 10 ). The aim of
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-femoral pulse wave velocity; IMT, intima-media thickness. All of the patients were divided into two groups according to the relative peripheral telomere length. The median telomere length was 9.75. All the patients with a telomere length less than the median
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was used for FMD analysis. Intima-media thickness (IMT) IMT was measured using high-resolution B-mode 10 MHz ultrasonography in the common carotid artery on the far wall, at three different angles ( 31 ). IMT was identified as the region
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no significant difference in sex composition, age, and TG, HDL-C, FBG, HbA1c, AST and ALT levels between the two groups. Blood pressure, BMI, carotid intima–media thickness and TC, LDL-C, GGT, ALP, and ET-1 levels were higher in patients with
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