The Association of Subclinical Atherosclerosis with Incident Heart Failure: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
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- title
- The Association of Subclinical Atherosclerosis with Incident Heart Failure: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
- author
- Effoe, Valery
- abstract
- Background: Atherosclerosis plays a central role in the pathophysiology of coronary heart disease (CHD), which is believed to be the most common etiology for heart failure (HF). Greater carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), a measure of subclinical atherosclerosis, is associated with left ventricular myocardial dysfunction, a subclinical marker of HF. We investigated the association of carotid IMT with incident HF among middle-aged whites and blacks, controlling for major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors.
- subject
- Carotid intima-media thickness
- Diabetes mellitus
- Heart failure
- Subclinical atherosclerosis
- contributor
- Bertoni, Alain G (committee chair)
- Byington, Robert P (committee member)
- Wagenknecht, Lynne E (committee member)
- Rodriguez, Carlos J (committee member)
- Evans, Gregory W (committee member)
- date
- 2013-08-23T08:35:18Z (accessioned)
- 2013 (issued)
- degree
- Clinical and Population Translational Sciences (discipline)
- embargo
- forever (terms)
- 10000-01-01 (liftdate)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/39025 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- type
- Thesis