Table 2.

Authors studying atheromatous plaques' prevalence in the general population.

Author	Year	Sample	Age	Prevalence (%)
Friedlander and De Bake [9]	1994	295 patients	55–84 years old	3
Carter [13]	1997	1,175 patients	>40 years old	3.6
Cohen et al. [14]	2002	71 patients	>55 years old	3.8
Bayer et al. [11]	2011	2,557 patients	>30 years old	5
Atalay et al. [15]	2015	1,650 patients	>45 years old	5.6
Gonçalves et al. [16]	2016	8,338 patients	4–94 years old	6.9
Barona-Dorado et al. [17]	2016	1,130 patients	>18 years old	15.4