Coronary artery calcification in older adults with minimal clinical or subclinical cardiovascular disease

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 256-263

  Newman, Anne B ^a,d   Naydeck, Barbara ^b   Sutton Tyrrell, Kim ^b   Edmundowicz, Daniel ^a   Gottdiener, John ^c   Kuller, Lewis H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery calcification; Electron Beam Tomography

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0034105317     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2000.tb02643.x     Document Type: Article

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