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Predictive value of associations between carotid and coronary artery disease in patients with acute coronary syndromes.

Komorovsky R, Desideri A, Coscarelli S, Cortigiani L, Tonello D, Visonà A, Celegon L

Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Department of Angiology, S. Giacomo Hospital, Castelfranco Veneto, Italy. roman_komor@yahoo.com <roman_komor@yahoo.com>

The present study evaluated the association among sonographic characteristics of carotid plaques, angiographic morphology of coronary lesions, and outcomes of patients who had acute coronary syndromes. In treatment-stratified Cox's proportional hazards regression analysis, hard carotid plaques and coronary lesions of complex morphology were found to be independent predictors of future cardiac events.

Published 27 December 2004 in Am J Cardiol, 95(1): 116-9.
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