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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="general-sciences" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">544</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>General Sciences</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>IS CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS AN INDICATOR OF GENERALIZED ATHEROSCLEROSIS: AN AUTOPSY STUDY&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Haswani</surname><given-names>Lokesh</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>M.L.</surname><given-names>Harendra Kumar</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>J.</surname><given-names>Kiran</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>43</fpage><lpage>48</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: Atherosclerosis is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Autopsy study is a gold standard for atherosclerosis. None of the study done on autopsy to prove the carotid atherosclerosis has the generalized nature.&#13;
Objective: To examine the association between carotid atherosclerosis with coronary, aorta and renal arteries in non cardiac patients using histological analysis.&#13;
Methods: We histologically examined 91 patients died of non cardiac cause. Atherosclerotic lesion in carotid, coronary, aorta and renal arteries were noted and graded according to modified AHA classification of atherosclerosis using morphological descriptions&#13;
(2000).&#13;
Results: Mean of carotid atherosclerosis was 11.5__ampersandsignplusmn;0.71, in coronary it was 37.33__ampersandsignplusmn;7.57, in aorta the mean we found was 27__ampersandsignplusmn;9. The mean of renal artery atherosclerosis was 2.75__ampersandsignplusmn;0.71. The association of carotid atherosclerosis with coronary, aorta and&#13;
renal arteries was statistically significant (p __ampersandsignlt; 0.05).&#13;
Conclusion: In present study we conclude that if carotid atherosclerosis is present, patient will be having coronary, aortic atherosclerosis but patient might have renal atherosclerosis. If carotid atherosclerosis is absent it doesn__ampersandsignrsquo;t mean that patient won__ampersandsignrsquo;t be having atherosclerosis in any other vessels.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Atherosclerosis</kwd><kwd> Autopsy</kwd><kwd> Carotid artery</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
