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| Santos-Neto,P.J.; Sena-Santos,E.H.; Meireles,D.P.; Santos,I.S.; Bensenor,I.M.; Lotufo,P.A.. |
| Carotid artery assessment by ultrasound is a non-invasive evaluation of subclinical atherosclerosis and a predictor of cardiovascular events. However, ultrasound examinations are operator-dependent. In the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil), ultrasound images have been acquired from more than 10,000 participants. In this article, we describe the reproducibility of carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT), carotid plaque detection, and carotid plaque score (defined as the number of arterial sites with plaques) using ELSA-Brasil protocol, in a subset of 118 participants. Two board-certified radiologists and a trained technician read carotid images. We calculated intra- and inter-observer intraclass correlation (ICC) for CIMT values. We... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Plaque; Intima-media; Epidemiology; Ultrasound; Imaging. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2019000800610 |
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