Is intima-media thickness a predictor for cardiovascular risk?

摘要

Ulf Naslund and colleagues suggest that the pictorial representation of silent atherosclerosis might contribute to the prevention of cardiovascular disease. However, several caveats need to be considered. The authors assume that increased intima-media thickness is still an established biomarker of subclinical atherosclerosis, but it is now known to be a very weak predictor of cardiovascular disease that does not add significant predictive capacity to traditional risk scores.