Use of carotid ultrasound to identify subclinical vascular disease and evaluate cardiovascular disease risk: a consensus statement from the American Society of Echocardiography Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Task Force. Endorsed by the Society for Vascular Medicine.

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Published in J Am Soc Echocardiogr on February 01, 2008

Authors

James H Stein1, Claudia E Korcarz, R Todd Hurst, Eva Lonn, Christopher B Kendall, Emile R Mohler, Samer S Najjar, Christopher M Rembold, Wendy S Post, American Society of Echocardiography Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Task Force

Author Affiliations

1: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin 53792, USA. jhs@medicine.wisc.edu

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