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Focused screening for occult carotid artery disease: patients with known heart disease are at high risk  Caron B Rockman, MD, Glenn R Jacobowitz, MD,

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1 Focused screening for occult carotid artery disease: patients with known heart disease are at high risk  Caron B Rockman, MD, Glenn R Jacobowitz, MD, Paul J Gagne, MD, Mark A Adelman, MD, Patrick J Lamparello, MD, Ronnie Landis, RN, Thomas S Riles, MD  Journal of Vascular Surgery  Volume 39, Issue 1, Pages (January 2004) DOI: /j.jvs

2 Fig 1 Relationship between types of heart disease and occult CAS among screened patients (n = 170). Gray bars, Number of patients; black diamonds, percent of patients with CAS. CAD, Coronary artery disease; CAS, carotid artery stenosis. Journal of Vascular Surgery  , 44-50DOI: ( /j.jvs )

3 Fig 2 Comparison of prevalence of demographic risk factors in patients without CAS (black bars), with unilateral CAS (light gray bars), and with bilateral CAS (dark gray bars). CAS, Carotid artery stenosis; Hi chol, hypercholesterolemia; Htn, hypertension. Journal of Vascular Surgery  , 44-50DOI: ( /j.jvs )

4 Fig 3 Direct costs per patient (black squares) per screening session. Gray bars indicate number of patients screened. Journal of Vascular Surgery  , 44-50DOI: ( /j.jvs )


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