Abstract
Article: An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study to Assess the Effects of Smoking on Common Carotid Intimal Medial Thickness & Resistivity Index Among Current Smokers of Himachal Pradesh
Authors: Harmeet Kaur, MD, Punit Tiwari, MS, Sanjeev Sharma, MD, and Madhur Verma, MD
Category: Vascular [VT]
Credit: 1.0 SDMS CME Credit
Objectives: After studying the article titled “An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study to Assess the Effects of Smoking on Common Carotid Intimal Medial Thickness & Resistivity Index Among Current Smokers of Himachal Pradesh,” you will be able to:
1. Discuss the associated findings of smoking to carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT)
2. Describe the sonographic criteria used for the study
3. Recognize smoking as a public health problem
1. The arterial resistive index (RI) is a hemodynamic parameter which is dependent upon vessel distensibility and was developed by: Fisher Pourcelot Craven Agarwal
2. According to the World Health Organization, India is home to what percentage of the world’s smokers? 26.7% 19% 12% 10.7%
3. The abnormal thickness of the CIMT in this study was defined as greater than: 0.6 mm 0.7 mm 0.8 mm 0.9 mm
4. The P value for the left CIMT comparison between smoking and nonsmoking participants was: .001 .002 .053 .066
5. What percentage of the 15 participants with plaques in the distal common carotid artery were chronic smokers over the age of 60? 28.2% 44% 62% 86.67%
6. In 1951, who first described the symptoms and pathologic substrate of carotid artery atherosclerotic occlusive disease? Fisher Pourcelot Agarwal Craven
7. Examination criteria included the Doppler angle maintained between 45º and 60º and the size of the sample volume box between: 1 and 2 mm 2 and 3 mm 3 and 4 mm 4 and 5 mm