Discriminating established cardiovascular disease using a novel multiterritory ultrasound plaque burden measure (wTPT): findings from the P-SONAR study

Gunnar Austad; Jonn Terje Geitung; Owen Thomas; Serena Tonstad

doi:10.1186/s12872-026-05807-8

Discriminating established cardiovascular disease using a novel multiterritory ultrasound plaque burden measure (wTPT): findings from the P-SONAR study

BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2026 Apr 9. doi: 10.1186/s12872-026-05807-8. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Gunnar Austad^{1

2}, Jonn Terje Geitung³, Owen Thomas⁴, Serena Tonstad⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Preventive Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, N-0424, Norway. gunnar.austad@gmail.com.
² Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. gunnar.austad@gmail.com.
³ Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, N-1478, Norway.
⁴ Health Services Research Unit, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, N-1478, Norway.
⁵ Department of Preventive Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, N-0424, Norway.

PMID: 41952119
DOI: 10.1186/s12872-026-05807-8

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Keywords: Cardiovascular disease; Cardiovascular risk; NORRISK-2; Peripheral artery disease; Plaque burden; Risk prediction; Subclinical atherosclerosis; Ultrasonography.