Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Its Relationship with Incident Heart Failure with Reduced and Preserved Ejection Fraction: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
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- abstract
- Introduction: Carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) is associated with heart failure (HF) in previous studies, but it is unknown whether the association of cIMT differs between HF with reduced (HFrEF) versus preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
- subject
- Carotid Intima-Media Thickness
- External Carotid Artery
- Heart Failure
- Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
- Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction
- Internal Carotid Artery
- contributor
- Herrington, David (committee chair)
- Foy, Capri (committee member)
- Leng, Iris (committee member)
- date
- 2019-05-24T08:35:54Z (accessioned)
- 2019-05-24T08:35:54Z (available)
- 2019 (issued)
- degree
- Clinical and Population Translational Sciences (discipline)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/94004 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Its Relationship with Incident Heart Failure with Reduced and Preserved Ejection Fraction: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
- type
- Thesis