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Koutatsu Maruyama, Salsabila Khairunnisa, Isao Saito, Takeshi Tanigawa, Kiyohide Tomooka, Satomi Minato-Inokawa, Madoka Sano, Misaki Takakado, Ryoichi Kawamura, Yasunori Takata, Haruhiko Osawa
Summary: This study found an association between fish and omega-3 fatty acid intake and carotid intima-media thickness (C-IMT) in the Japanese population, suggesting that omega-3 fatty acid intake may protect against the development of atherosclerosis.
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Mingyue Zhou, Jia Zhang, Jiaokun Jia, Yanfang Liu, Mengyi Guo, Xiaoyu Lv, Xingquan Zhao, Shengyun Chen
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Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Qiaoxia Yang, Qiuxing Lin, Dandan Guo, Hanhua Wang, Jie Liu, Xin Zhang, Jun Tu, Xianjia Ning, Qing Yang, Jinghua Wang
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David Leander Rimmele, Elina Larissa Petersen, Eckhard Schlemm, Simon S. Kessner, Marvin Petersen, Carola Mayer, Bastian Cheng, Tanja Zeller, Christoph Waldeyer, Christian-Alexander Behrendt, Christian Gerloff, Gotz Thomalla
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the association between carotid plaques and flow velocities with peak width mean diffusivity and white matter hyperintensities, independent of shared risk factors. The results showed that both carotid plaques and low flow velocities were significantly associated with higher white matter hyperintensities and peak width mean diffusivity.
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Yue Leon Guo, Rosario D. Ampon, Ivan C. Hanigan, Luke D. Knibbs, Christy Geromboux, Ta-Chen Su, Kazuaki Negishi, Leanne Poulos, Geoffrey G. Morgan, Guy B. Marks, Bin Jalaludin
Summary: The study found that long-term exposure to low levels of PM2.5 in children may have measurable adverse impacts on cardiovascular risk marker, carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT), by age 11-12 years.
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Adrian Cortes-Valencia, Adriana Monge, Marcela Tamayo-Ortiz, Ruy Lopez-Ridaura, Beatriz L. Rodriguez, Carlos Cantu-Brito, Andres Catzin-Kuhlmann, Martin Lajous
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Xiaojing Jia, Yan Qi, Ruizhi Zheng, Lin Lin, Chunyan Hu, Yuanyue Zhu, Qiuyu Cao, Xueyan Wu, Hongyan Qi, Ran Wei, Yi Zhang, Min Xu, Yu Xu, Tiange Wang, Zhiyun Zhao, Yuhong Chen, Mian Li, Weiqing Wang, Yufang Bi, Jieli Lu
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the association between the discordance of LDL-C with apoB or non-HDL-C and arterial stiffness and elevated CIMT in middle-aged and elderly adults. The results showed that elevated apoB or non-HDL-C was a better predictor of arterial stiffness, while LDL-C was a better predictor of elevated CIMT.
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Gomathi Munusamy, Ramesh Shanmugam
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Nate P. Bachman, Janee D. Terwoord, Jennifer C. Richards, Barry Braun, C. Patrick Green, Gary J. Luckasen, Frank A. Dinenno
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Daniel Goeder, Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz, Leon Brudy, Laura Willinger, Michael Meyer, Peter Ewert, Jan Mueller
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Amy Isabella Sentis, Javier Rasero, Peter J. Gianaros, Timothy D. Verstynen
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NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL
(2022)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Anna Maria Rychter, Dariusz Naskret, Agnieszka Zawada, Alicja Ewa Ratajczak, Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Iwona Krela-Kazmierczak
Summary: Atherosclerosis is strongly associated with obesity, with carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) serving as a predictor of cardiovascular events and subclinical atherosclerosis. Behavioral interventions can directly impact cIMT values, influencing cardiovascular disease risk.
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Manuel Sanchez-Diaz, Luis Salvador-Rodriguez, Trinidad Montero-Vilchez, Antonio Martinez-Lopez, Salvador Arias-Santiago, Alejandro Molina-Leyva
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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
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Xuejuan Xia, Darel Wee Kiat Toh, Shi Ling Ng, Olga Zharkova, Kian Keong Poh, Roger S. Y. Foo, Jiong-Wei Wang, Jung Eun Kim
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Kirsty M. Mckenzie, Reeja Nasir, Yang Kong, Hasthi U. Dissanayake, Rowena McMullan, Adrienne Gordon, Alice Meroni, Melinda Phang, Michael R. Skilton
Summary: Evidence from animal models suggests that maternal diet during pregnancy may affect offspring cardiometabolic health. However, in healthy pregnancies, neither the quantity nor quality of maternal carbohydrate intake appears to have a significant impact on newborn aortic intima-medial thickness, except for fiber intake in overweight or obese women. The effect of carbohydrate quality may be more pronounced in high-risk pregnancies.