USE OF SONOGRAPHY TO EVALUATE CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN THE ELDERLY - THE CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH STUDY
USE OF SONOGRAPHY TO EVALUATE CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN THE ELDERLY - THE CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH STUDY
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DOI：
10.1161/01.str.22.9.1155
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发表时间：
1991-09-01
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影响因子：
8.3
通讯作者：
MANOLIO, TA
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作者：
OLEARY, DH;POLAK, JF;MANOLIO, TA
在心血管健康研究中，对5,000多名参与者进行了颈动脉超声检查，这是一项针对65岁及以上男性和女性心血管疾病的前瞻性多中心研究。超声检查方法用于检查和测量颅外颈动脉的描述。对61名平均年龄为68.6岁的受试者进行了初步验证研究。对选定的变量进行了超声检查者之间和超声检查者之间的差异以及阅片者之间的差异分析。一般来说，超声医师内和超声医师间比较的平均绝对差异很小，阅片师之间的变异性更小。颈总动脉的变异性小于颈内动脉。这些数据表明，颈动脉超声检查是一种可靠的和可重复的方法，用于研究颈动脉粥样硬化的人口研究。
Carotid sonography is being performed on more than 5,000 participants in the Cardiovascular Health Study, a prospective, multicenter study of cardiovascular disease in men and women aged 65 years and older. The sonographic methods used to examine and measure the extracranial carotid arteries are described. Initial validation studies were performed on 61 subjects with a mean age of 68.6 years. Analysis of within- and between-sonographer differences and between-reader differences were performed for selected variables. In general, the mean absolute differences for within- and between-sonographer comparisons were small, with even less variability between readers. Variability was less for the common carotid artery than for the internal carotid artery. These data suggest that carotid sonography is a reliable and reproducible method for use in the study of carotid atherosclerosis in population studies.