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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2011 Feb 18;216(2):359–364. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.02.023

Table 2.

Mean (mm ± SD) Intima –media thickness of femoral and carotid artery in young adults by race and gender.

Arterial segments (IMT) White male (n =348) Black male (n =117) White female (n =419) Black Female (n =196) Comparison*
Race Gender
Femoral (n=1080) 0.75 ± 0.37 0.70 ± 0.19 0.64 ± 0.26 0.66 ± 0.22 ns 0.0001a
Common carotid (n=1079) 0.78 ± 0.14 0.84 ± 0.15 0.71 ± 0.10 0.76 ± 0.12 0.0001 0.0001
Carotid bulb (n=1060) 1.02 ± 0.28 1.02 ± 0.23 0.91 ± 0.21 0.94 ± 0.28 ns 0.0001
Internal carotid (n=1029) 0.75 ± 0.21 0.76 ± 0.20 0.68 ± 0.18 0.71 ± 0.19 ns 0.0001
Composite carotid (n=1018) 0.85 ± 0.17 0.88 ± 0.15 0.76 ± 0.13 0.80 ± 0.15 0.0001 0.0001
a

whites only.

*

P value adjusted for age