Evaluating the underestimated risk factors associated with carotid artery stenosis

Lenise Jihe Kim; Keity Mey Okazaki; Luis Renan Centurion Gandolphi; Fernando Morgadinho Santos Coelho; Sergio Tufik; Monica Levy Andersen

doi:10.4414/smw.2015.14088

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Vol. 145 No. 0708 (2015)

Evaluating the underestimated risk factors associated with carotid artery stenosis

Lenise Jihe Kim
Keity Mey Okazaki
Luis Renan Centurion Gandolphi
Fernando Morgadinho Santos Coelho
Sergio Tufik
Monica Levy Andersen

Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2015;145:w14088
Published: 08.02.2015

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US Burden of Disease Collaborators. The state of US health, 1990–2010: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors. JAMA. 2013;310(6):591–608.
Grotta JC. Carotid stenosis. N Engl J Med. 2013;369(24):2360–1.
Everts R, Wapp M, Burren Y, Kellner-Weldon F, El-Koussy M, Kay J, et al. Cognitive and emotional effects of carotid stenosis. Swiss Med Wkly. 2014;144:w13970. http://www.smw.ch/content/smw-2014-13970/
Yaggi HK, Concato J, Kernan WN, Lichtman JH, Brass LM, Mohsenin V. Obstructive sleep apnea as a risk factor for stroke and death. N Engl J Med. 2005;353(19):2034–41.
Somers VK, White DP, Amin R, Abraham WT, Costa F, Culebras A, et al. Sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease: an American Heart Association/American College Of Cardiology Foundation Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research Professional Education Committee, Council on Clinical Cardiology, Stroke Council, and Council On Cardiovascular Nursing. In collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (National Institutes of Health). Circulation. 2008;2;118(10):1080–111.
Deeb R, Judge P, Peterson E, Lin JC, Yaremchuk K. Snoring and carotid artery intima-media thickness. Laryngoscope. 2014;124(6):1486–91.

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[1] US Burden of Disease Collaborators. The state of US health, 1990–2010: burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors. JAMA. 2013;310(6):591–608.

[2] Grotta JC. Carotid stenosis. N Engl J Med. 2013;369(24):2360–1.

[3] Everts R, Wapp M, Burren Y, Kellner-Weldon F, El-Koussy M, Kay J, et al. Cognitive and emotional effects of carotid stenosis. Swiss Med Wkly. 2014;144:w13970. http://www.smw.ch/content/smw-2014-13970/

[4] Yaggi HK, Concato J, Kernan WN, Lichtman JH, Brass LM, Mohsenin V. Obstructive sleep apnea as a risk factor for stroke and death. N Engl J Med. 2005;353(19):2034–41.

[5] Somers VK, White DP, Amin R, Abraham WT, Costa F, Culebras A, et al. Sleep apnea and cardiovascular disease: an American Heart Association/American College Of Cardiology Foundation Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research Professional Education Committee, Council on Clinical Cardiology, Stroke Council, and Council On Cardiovascular Nursing. In collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (National Institutes of Health). Circulation. 2008;2;118(10):1080–111.

[6] Deeb R, Judge P, Peterson E, Lin JC, Yaremchuk K. Snoring and carotid artery intima-media thickness. Laryngoscope. 2014;124(6):1486–91.