The relationship between different chronic cardiovascular diseases and degrees of severity.

Note: * Due to the presence of the desired frequency Table 4 shows the relationship between number of chronic cardiovascular diseases and degree of severity. In the group with no chronic disease, cIMT was normal in more than half of the subjects. With the increasing number of chronic cardiovascular disease, the exposure rate of subject’s intimal thickening, plaque formation and moderate carotid stenosis increased. Fig 2C shows the cIMT in subjects with different numbers of chronic cardiovascular diseases with significant difference noticed between groups (p