Helmuth Fritz, MD Asst Clin Prof, Medicine School of Medicine

Research & Grantsmanship 

  Funded Research Project (PI)

• Atherosclerosis Imaging and Tracking of NEWSTART Lifestyle rograms ( 7/2005 - 11/2006 )

• Carotid IMT reference values ( 7/2005 - 11/2006 )

• Tracking Atherosclerosis in Diabetics and Pre-diabetics ( 7/2005 - 11/2006 )

• Variability of IMT measurements by different software edge-detection programs and between different models of portable ultrasound scanning instruments ( 7/2005 - 11/2006 )

• Variability of IMT measurements between different ultrasound instrument manufacturers, imaging formats, and edge detection software programs. ( 7/2005 - 11/2006 )

• Tracking Atherosclerotosis in CHIP participants ( 7/2005 - 11/2006 )

• Repeatability of CCA IMT on individual subjects ( 7/2004 - 11/2006 )

  Funded Research Project (CI)

• PREDICTABILITY OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE EVENT RATES BY COMMON CAROTID ARTERY INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS ALONE COMPARED TO COMBINED THREE SITE SAMPLING IN THE ATHEROSCLEROSIS RISK IN COMMUNITIES (ARIC) STUDY ( 7/2005 - 11/2006 )

• REPRODUCIBILITY AND LEAST SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE OF SERIAL CAROTID INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS SCANNING ON INDIVIDUAL SUBJECTS ( 7/2005 - 11/2006 )

• ARIC IMT parameters correlates ( 7/2004 - 11/2006 )