BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cigarette smoking is correlated with extracranial carotid artery plaque thickness. Our aim in the present study was to determine whether the level of prior cigarette use is a significant predictor of carotid artery plaque thickness when age, history of hypertension, and history of diabetes are controlled. METHODS We studied a continuous sample of 790 patients with a his...

AIM We investigated the relationship between coronary risk factors and the intima-media thickness (IMT) and wall elasticity of carotid arteries. A new real-time ultrasonic measurement system that allows measurement of the elasticity of the carotid arterial intima-media complex was applied to 350 subjects, who were also checked for the presence/absence of hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mel...

PURPOSE To determine if complicated plaque can be found by using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging-depicted intraplaque hemorrhage (IPH), even among symptomatic patients with low-grade (≤50%) carotid stenosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS The institutional ethics review board approved this retrospective study and waived requirements for written informed consent. Symptomatic patients with bilateral 0%-...

BACKGROUND The effect of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) on cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is not assessed within the first 10 years postpartum, regardless of subsequent diabetes. The aim of this study was to determine the risk of CVD events related to GDM within 7 years of postpartum. METHODS This nationwide population-based study of deliveries in 2007 and 2008 with a follow-up of 7 years...

OBJECTIVE To compare coronary artery calcium (CAC) progression between 2 treatment groups, pioglitazone versus glimepiride. METHODS AND RESULTS The CHICAGO (Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Atherosclerosis Using Pioglitazone) study demonstrated that pioglitazone significantly decreased carotid intima-media thickness progression compared with glimepiride in patients with type 2 diabetes melli...

BACKGROUND Maternal diabetes mellitus in pregnancy results in greater offspring adiposity at birth. It is unclear whether it is associated with greater adiposity into adulthood, and if so, whether this is via intrauterine mechanisms or shared familial characteristics. METHODS AND RESULTS A record-linkage prospective cohort study of 280,866 singleton-born Swedish men from 248,293 families was ...

the possibility of abnormal avf was considered and it was confirmed on contrast-enhanced computed tomography (ct), inferring that this modality is not only fast and non-invasive, but also accurate in detecting vascular abnormalities. herein, we report a 42-year-old woman with congenital avf between the external carotid artery and external jugular vein, presenting with palpitation and dyspnea. t...

objective: to evaluate the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) and its risk factors in tehran. materials and methods: from march 2002 to october 2004, screening for gdm was performed on 1804 women in tehran. all pregnant women were referred for a 50 g oral glucose challenge test (ogct) between 24th and 28th week of gestation. all subjects with an abnormal gct (blood glucose level ...