Intima-media Thickness of Carotid Artery in Patients with Behçet’s Disease

Subclinical atherosclerosis in Behcet’s disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…1), 24 studies met the criteria for inclusion in the analysis: 9 investigated FMD and/or EMD [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26], 11 IMT [8,[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36] and 4 investigated both [37][38][39][40].…”

“…All investigators measured IMT at the common carotid artery but for one study where the authors presented the average IMT taken at the distal common carotids, at the far wall of the carotid bulbs and at the far wall of the internal carotid artery [8]. Indeed studies varied with regards to inclusion criteria: n ¼ 3 compared patients with and without vascular involvement and provided separate measurements [27,37,38], n ¼ 1 provided separate data for patients with and without systemic involvement (mucocutaneous only) [36], n ¼ 3 studies included a mixture of active and inactive disease [32,34,40] of which one provided separate data for active and inactive disease [32], n ¼ 3 studies were carried out on patients with low or inactive disease [31,33,35], n ¼ 2 were carried out on patients without vascular and/or systemic involvement [38,39] and n ¼ 2 were carried out in patients without cardiovascular risk factors [28,30].…”

“…The presence of carotid plaques was investigated in eight studies [8,[27][28][29][30]32,33,35] but we pooled only 7 case-control studies comprising 547 BD patients and 397 controls for the effect size of this outcome because one study had found plaques neither in BD subjects nor in controls [30]. The pooled prevalence of subjects with carotid plaques was 12% in the BD population (range from 4% to 18%) and 3.7% (range from 2% to 9%) in the control group.…”

Subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis

“…In some studies, it has been shown that there is a relationship between cIMT and coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, and stroke (O'Leary et al, 1999;Matsushima et al, 2007). Many studies have also reported that cIMT increases in patients with Behc ßet's disease (Alan et al, 2004;Keser et al, 2005;Hong et al, 2006;Ozt€ urk et al, 2008;Messedi et al, 2011). There are limited studies of cEMT in the literature.…”

Evaluation of subclinical atherosclerosis by ultrasound radiofrequency data technology in patients with Behçet's disease

“…In a study investigating the effects of BD on long‐term morbidity and mortality, it was reported that cardiovascular diseases were not an important cause of mortality in BD . However, there are also studies reporting evidence of subclinical atherosclerosis in BD patients …”