The Association of Subclinical Atherosclerosis with Incident Heart Failure: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
| dc.contributor.author | Effoe, Valery | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-23T08:35:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/39025 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Wake Forest University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Carotid intima-media thickness | en_US |
| dc.subject | Diabetes mellitus | en_US |
| dc.subject | Heart failure | en_US |
| dc.subject | Subclinical atherosclerosis | en_US |
| dc.title | The Association of Subclinical Atherosclerosis with Incident Heart Failure: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| thesis.contributor.committeeChair | Bertoni, Alain G | en_US |
| thesis.contributor.committeeMember | Byington, Robert P | en_US |
| thesis.contributor.committeeMember | Wagenknecht, Lynne E | en_US |
| thesis.contributor.committeeMember | Rodriguez, Carlos J | en_US |
| thesis.contributor.committeeMember | Evans, Gregory W | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Clinical and Population Translational Sciences | en_US |
| thesis.embargo.liftdate | 10000-01-01 | |
| thesis.embargo.terms | forever | en_US |