thesis
Cardiovascular risk assessment using carotid ultrasonography: The Rotterdam Study
- Publication date
- 26 September 2001
- Publisher
- Atherosclerosis is the main cause of coronary heart disease, stroke and peripheral
arterial disease. These cardiovascular diseases are the most important cause of
morbidity and responsible for 50% of all mortality in the United States, Europe and
much of Asia. l Since atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases are most prominently
present in the elderly and the number of elderly people will increase in the coming
decades, atherosclerosis-related diseases will put a heavy burden on our health care
systems.