Carotid artery intima-media thickness and hypertensive heart disease: a short review
Abstract Sustained by its relative ease of assessment, carotid artery intima-media thickness (cIMT) has emerged as an important surrogate marker of target organ damage in hypertensive heart disease over the last three decades. However, the prognostic utility of cIMT in hypertensive heart disease dif...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-04-01
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| Series: | Clinical Hypertension |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40885-017-0063-3 |