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Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Cardiol. 2011 Jun 14;8(9):513–525. doi: 10.1038/nrcardio.2011.86

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Relationship between childhood and adulthood cardiovascular risk factors and adult carotid IMT. a Relationships between HDL and LDL cholesterol in childhood (ages 3–18 years) and adulthood (ages 24–45 years) with IMT progression in adulthood (mean [95% CI]). A cut-point of 50th percentile was used in classifying the HDL-cholesterol:LDL-cholesterol ratio as low or high. b Relationships between BMI in childhood and adulthood with IMT progression in adulthood. A cut-point of 50th percentile was used in classifying BMI as high or low. P values are from t-tests. Abbreviation: IMT, intimal–medial thickness. Reproduced from Juonala, M. et al. Lifetime risk factors and progression of carotid atherosclerosis in young adults: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns study. Eur. Heart J. (2010) 31 (14), 1745–1751 by permission of Oxford University Press.

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