Creating a web application that combines Framingham risk with electron beam CT coronary calcium score to calculate a new event risk

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-96

  Boyar, Alan ^a,b  

^a Advanced Body Scan of Newport ^*  (United States)

^b Advanced Body Scan of Newport   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary Calcium Score; Electron Beam CT (EBT); Heart disease risk calculator; Internet

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY CALCIUM SCORE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FRAMINGHAM SCORE; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BAYES THEOREM; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; HEART; HUMANS; INTERNET; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645104038     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rti.0000185141.27738.63     Document Type: Article

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