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Adeseye A Akintunde Author

Subjects of specialization
echocardiographic correlates., Cardiovascular Burden

Affiliation
Akintunde AA is a Clinical Cardiologist/Research Fellow and a Senior Lecturer at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology,

Biography

Dr Akintunde AA is a Clinical Cardiologist/Research Fellow and a Senior Lecturer at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria. His main research interests are risk stratification and therapy of hypertension, heart failure and sleep apnoea in cardiovascular disease .


Publications

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Carotid Intima Media Thickness as a Surrogate Marker of Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Burden in Hypertensive Subjects: Relevance and Implications

Author(s):

Adeseye A Akintunde, Ademola A Aremu, Phillip B Adebayo, Luqman O Kareem, Aminat K Bakare, Sebastine O Oiwoh, Morenike O Audu and Oladimeji G Opadijo

Carotid Intima Media Thickness as a Surrogate Marker of Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Burden in Hypertensive Subjects: Relevance and Implications

The availability of surrogate markers of severity of atherosclerosis is essential to monitor and prevent cardiovascular morbidity associated with atherosclerosis. Carotid intima media thickness (c-IMT)) is a marker of atherosclerosis. We aimed to compare the c-IMT of hypertensive subjects with their normotensive counterparts and associated demographic and echocardiographic correlates.

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DOI: 10.4172/lpma.1000108

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