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Clear Answers About CIMT and Preventive Vascular Imaging

Explore practical, carefully bounded educational guides for physicians, patients, and prevention-focused programs. Each article explains what an imaging approach can show, what it cannot show, and where physician judgment matters.

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CIMT vs calcium score

Compare ultrasound of the neck with CT imaging of coronary calcium—and learn why they are not interchangeable.

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What is vascular age?

Understand the age-like comparison, why methods differ, and which questions to ask about the calculation.

Understand vascular age

Carotid plaque explained

Learn how plaque may appear on ultrasound and what soft, mixed, and calcified descriptors mean.

Learn about plaque

CIMT vs carotid duplex

See the difference between a screening-oriented CIMT study and a clinically indicated diagnostic carotid duplex.

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Educational information, not personal medical advice

Use these guides to prepare better questions for your clinician—not to choose a test, interpret a report, or change treatment on your own. New or urgent neurologic, chest, breathing, or other concerning symptoms require prompt medical evaluation.

AAI will update this library as service information and source guidance evolve.

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