Associations between dietary macronutrient composition and cardiometabolic health: data from NHANES 1999-2014.

Purpose: Dietary macronutrients significantly impact cardiometabolic health, yet research often focuses on individual macronutrient relationships. This study aimed to explore the associations between dietary macronutrient composition and cardiometabolic health.

Methods: This study included 33,681 US adults (49.

Ultrasound Assessment of Aortic and Carotid Artery Intima-media Thickness in Children and Adolescents.

Carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), measured using high-resolution B-mode ultrasonography, is a widely utilized surrogate marker of subclinical atherosclerosis, the pathophysiological process underlying most clinical cardiovascular disease events. Atherosclerosis is a gradual disease that originates early in life, thus, there has been increased interest in measuring carotid IMT in childhood and adolescence to assess structural change in the arterial vasculature in response to adverse exposures. However, the timing of atherosclerosis varies across the vascular tree.