Carótidas e o risco cardiovascular

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We performed a prospective evaluation on 320 voluntary people on the city of Madrid, to assess the impact of carotid IMT and carotid plaque assessment in modifying the risk stratification of population with a low-intermediate cardiovascular risk (CVR) by clinical
criteria. Our findings suggest carotid ultrasonography improves CVR assessment in asymptomatic patients assigned to low and intermediate CVR category.

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Atherosclerosis screening with carotid ultrasonography changed the risk stratum in 59 patients (18.4 %), deemed as low or intermediate risk by clinical criteria alone, into a high CVR. Reclassification was more frequent in the intermediate CVR group (22.7% vs 9.6 %, p= 0.005), and was associated to age (p<0.001), history of arterial hypertension (p=0.002), and increased systolic blood pressure (p=0.05).
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