Clinical significance of the coronary calcification score by multidetector row computed tomography for the evaluation of coronary stenosis in Japanese patients

Circulation Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1122-1127

  Mitsutake, Ryoko ^a   Niimura, Hideya ^a   Miura, Shin Ichiro ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a   Iwata, Atsushi ^a   Nishikawa, Hiroaki ^a   Kawamura, Akira ^a   Kumagai, Koichiro ^a   Shirai, Kazuyuki ^a   Matsunaga, Akira ^a   Saku, Keijiro ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary angiography; Coronary artery calcification score; Multidetector row computed tomography; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CALCINOSIS; CHOLESTEROL; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN A; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 33748667343     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.70.1122     Document Type: Article

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