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Table 1.

Comparison of age range, CCA IMT and reproducibility from different populations (3)

				Intersonographer Reproducibility
Population	Mean Age, y	Mean IMT, mm	Maximal IMT, mm	Intraclass Correlation Coefficient of CCA IMT	Average Absolute Difference of Replicate Measures, mm
ARIC*_11,13	54	0.63±0.16	...	0.48	0.17±0.17
Rotterdam Study₁₄	70	0.80±0.20	1.03±0.22	0.78-0.84	0.06±0.09 †
CHS₁₂	73	...	1.09±0.20	ICC not given, r² = 0.52	0.20±0.26
Kitamura 2004₁₆	66	...	1.03±0.43	Not given ∫	Not given ∫
MDCS₁₇	57	0.77±0.15 †,‡	...	ICC not given, r² = 0.85	0.10±0.10
CAPS₁₉	50	0.73±0.16	...	0.97	0.11±0.08

* Missing values if IMT sites were imputed; IMT values were adjusted according to reader differences. All statistics are the authors' own calculations on the ARIC dataset.

† Ascertained by contacting the corresponding author directly.

‡ Only right side was examined.

∫ Only 1 observer.