Arterial imaging might optimize statin eligibility by current atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk calculation tools

Atherosclerosis. 2024 Dec 14:401:119093. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2024.119093. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Konstantinos G Kyriakoulis¹, Aikaterini Komnianou¹, Kyriakos Dimitriadis², Anastasios Kollias³

Affiliations

¹ Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece.
² First Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
³ Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: taskollias@gmail.com.

PMID: 39705905
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2024.119093

No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiovascular risk; Carotid ultrasonography; Reclassification; Statin therapy; Subclinical atherosclerosis.

Publication types

Letter