Linking To And Excerpting From Stroke Manual Treatment AAnd Prevention’s “[Carotid] Intima Media Thickness (IMT)

Posted on July 1, 2026 by Tom Wade MD

Today, I review, link to, and excerpt from Stroke Manual Treatment And Prevention‘s         “[Carotid] Intima Media Thickness (IMT)”. David Goldemund, M.D. Updated April 24,2026.

All that follows is from the above resource. Basically, this article states that Carotid IMT is not a reliable or specific measure of atherosclerosis burden and doesn’t add incremental predictive value.

 

 

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