ELKO — Life Line Screening will hold stroke and heart disease screenings at First Presbyterian Church of Elko on March 1. The company said appointments must be reserved ahead of time at 800-772-8243.

February is heart month, a time to think about the health of your and your loved ones’ arteries. If arteries get stressed by ...

Residents aged 18 years or older in the sampled areas were included in this study, and data were collected through questionnaires, physical examinations, laboratory tests, carotid ultrasound ...

Compared with IMT, measurement of carotid plaque volume by three-dimensional ultrasound reduces by two orders of magnitude the sample size and duration of treatment needed to evaluate new therapies.

Introduction: Nonstenotic carotid plaque is found in some patients with otherwise cryptogenic stroke (CS) but also in normal individuals and patients with stroke of known cause (KS). Clinical ...

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CaW is usually formed at the carotid bifurcation. This prior knowledge may assist in its automatic segmentation and detection. To avoid the influence of other possible plaques on the carotid artery, ...

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