%0 English Abstract
%T [Cardiovascular diseases in the young patients : Place of the carotid intima-media thickness at the University Hospital-Ibn Rochd of Casablanca].
%A Mahoungou-Mackonia N
%A Mousaid M
%A Brahim N
%A Haboub M
%A Salim A
%A Benouna G
%A Drighil A
%A Azzouzi L
%A Habbal R
%J Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris)
%V 72
%N 3
%D 2023 Jun
%M 37116428
暂无%R 10.1016/j.ancard.2023.101600
%X <B>BACKGROUND: </B>The measurement of intima-media thickness (IMT), long neglected, is a fundamental element in the prediction of cardiovascular events. Vascular Doppler ultrasonography is one of the tools needed to objectify atherosclerosis.<BR><B>OBJECTIVE: </B>The aim of our study is to establish a correlation between cardiovascular events and intima-media thickness.<BR><B>METHODS: </B>We conducted a prospective, cross-sectional and descriptive study over a period of 6 months in the cardiology department of Chu-Ibn Rochd, based on vascular Doppler ultrasound data, presenting a risk factor and or vascular cardiovascular disease of the supra-aortic trunks using a high frequency linear probe (7.5 MHZ) connected to a GENERAL Electric ultrasound machine. Intima-media thickness was considered normal < 0.8 mm in adult patients aged 40-60 years.<BR><B>RESULTS: </B>IMT ≥ 0.8 mm was found in 89.2% of patients out of a total of 102 patients recruited, predominantly male (54.9%) with a mean age of 56 ± 9 years. Cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular diseases were associated with an increase in IMT. Diabetics were the most frequent to have an elevated IMT, found at 50.9%, followed by 43.1% of hypertensives, 27.4% respectively between haemodialysis patients and ischemic strokes and 14% in coronary patients with indication of bypass surgery.<BR><B>CONCLUSIONS: </B>Elevated IMT is associated with cardiovascular events and should be sought as their primary indicator in future large-scale studies so that it can be routinely assessed for a cardiovascular risk factor.