.9%-41.6%) in 2002 to 55.9% (95% CI, 52.0%-59.8%) in 2018 (P < .001).

A substantial proportion of beginning smokers and most new daily smokers are now young adults, reflecting a shift from adolescence to early adulthood, a population segment once considered beyond the critical risk period for cigarette smoking onset. Expanding the lon…[Read more]

1%) patients. The following cut-off values showed high levels of diagnostic accuracy ≥0.4 mm for temporal, facial and occipital arteries, ≥0.7 mm for vertebral arteries, and ≥1 mm for carotid, subclavian and axillary arteries.

The involvement of a large array of arteries is easily and commonly detected by CDS and provides a high diagno…[Read more]