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TABLE 1. An Overview of Manual and Automated IMT Measurement Studies for the Left and Right CCA in Normal and Cardiovascular Disease Groups.

Study	Year	Method	N	Left CCA mean(std) (mm)		Right CCA mean(std) (mm)		p-value
				Manual	Auto	Manual	Auto	Manual	Auto
Normal Group
Bots [11]	1997	Manual	1500	0.79(0.21)	-	0.78(0.22)	-	0.65	-
Schmidt [15]	1998	Manual/automated	50	0.88(0.25)	0.85(0.19)	0.86(0.24)	0.84(0.20)	0.43	0.49
Willekes [12]	1999	Manual/Ultramark	16	0.52(0.46)	0.49(0.45)	0.55 (0.42)	0.51(0.64)	0.55	0.83
Sun [8]	2002	Manual B-mode	1781	0.68(0.12)	-	0.66(0.12)	-	0.0004	-
Rodriquez [7]	2003	Manual B-mode	102	0.75(0.11)	-	0.71(0.11)	-	0.001	-
Arbel [6]	2007	-/M’ATH	98	-	0.625(0.078)	-	0.626(0.075)	-	0.884
Luo [9]	2011	QIMT	447	0.49(0.09)	-	0.47(0.09)	-	-	0.002
This study	2014	Manual/automated	976	0.74(0.20)	0.73(0.20)	0.70(0.17)	0.69(0.19)	0.56	0.77
CVD Group
Bots [11]	1997	Manual	60	1.23(1.03)	-	1.29(1.08)	-	0.42	-
Willekes [12]	1999	Manual/Ultramark	13	0.74(0.74)	0.71(0.46)	0.73(0.61)	0.73(0.69)	0.67	0.03
Vicenzini [30]	2007	Manual	1655	-	0.97(0.21)	-	0.95(0.19)	-	0.001
Lee [10]	2011	Manual	149	0.83(0.24)	-	0.83(0.21)	-	0.72	-
This study	2014	Manual/automated	125	0.87(0.24)	0.86(0.23)	0.80(0.18)	0.81 (0.18)	0.02	0.04

CVD: Cardiovascular events; N: Number of cases investigated; significantly (shown underlined) and non-significantly different at Inline graphic and respectively.