Carotid artery plaques and intima medial thickness in familial hypercholesteraemic patients on long-term statin therapy: A case control study

Carotid plaques and C-IMT did not differ between long-term statin-treated heterozygous FH patients and healthy controls. This shows that long-term statin treatment in these FH patients reduces carotid atherosclerosis to a degree of a healthy population. These findings strongly suggests that sonography of the carotid arteries during follow-up of statin-treated FH patients has limited value.