Carotid intima media thickness and plaques can predict the occurrence of ischemic cerebrovascular events.

Background And Purpose: The clinical usefulness of noninvasive measurement of carotid intima media thickness and plaque visualization in the general population is still uncertain.

Methods: We evaluated the age-specific incidence rates of cerebrovascular events in a cohort of 1348 subjects randomly taken from the census list of San Daniele Township and followed for a mean period of 12.7 years.

Determinants of carotid plaque occurrence. A long-term prospective population study: the San Daniele Project.

Background: Increased carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) is frequently associated with established modifiable and non-modifiable cardiovascular risk factors, and is thought to be an independent predictor of ischemic cerebrovascular and cardiac events. The presence of carotid plaque is considered an established feature of atherosclerosis. There exist few longitudinal data on the predictive role of CIMT in the occurrence of carotid plaque.

The San Daniele 2 Project: protocol description and population characteristics.

In 1990 we studied the prevalence and determinants of carotid atherosclerosis in an Italian general asymptomatic population (630 males and 718 females aged 18-99 years) living in the San Daniele district of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region. The global prevalence of subclinical carotid atherosclerosis was 25.4% in men and 26.