What does CIMT stand for?

Carotid Intimal Medial Thickness

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Samples in periodicals archive:

It will examine carotid intimal medial thickness, a very strong marker of coronary heart disease, and the results will similarly pinpoint the drug's effect on plaque burden.

Torcetrapib's failure may not doom HDL raisers: increased mortality ...

A number of cardiovascular disease risk factors and subclinical disease measures were associated with continued health, including higher HDL cholesterol, lack of diabetes, thinner common carotid intimal medial thickness, lower blood pressure, lower C-reactive protein value, and higher ankle-arm blood pressure ratio.

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Postley used SonoSite hand-carried ultrasound systems in his study, in which 120 patients from his practice were examined with ultrasound for the presence of carotid and femoral arterial plaque and the measurement of carotid intimal medial thickness (CIMT).

SonoSite Highlights Physician's Study Evaluating Heart Disease Risk; ...