Clinical InvestigationHigh-Resolution Vascular Ultrasound and Stroke RiskThe Diagnostic Value of Radial and Carotid Intima Thickness Measured by High-Resolution Ultrasound for Ischemic Stroke
High-Resolution Vascular Ultrasound and Stroke Risk
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Keywords
Radial artery
Carotid artery
Intima thickness
Atherosclerosis
High-resolution ultrasound
Abbreviations
AUC
Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve
CIMT
Carotid intima-media thickness
CIT
Carotid intima thickness
COV
Coefficient of variation
DBP
Diastolic blood pressure
GLU
Fasting blood glucose
HCY
Homocysteine
HDL-C
High-density lipoprotein cholesterol
IT
Intima thickness
LAAS
Large-artery atherosclerosis
LDL-C
Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol
MT
Media thickness
PIT
Dorsalis pedis intima thickness
RIMT
Radial intima-media thickness
RIT
Radial intima thickness
SBP
Systolic blood pressure
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This work was supported by the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (0719033), the State Key Program of National Natural Science of China (81530014), the International Collaboration and Exchange Program of China (81920108003), and grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81770442).
Conflicts of interest: None.
Drs. Xu and Jin contributed equally to this manuscript
2020 by the American Society of Echocardiography.