Predicting cardiovascular events with coronary calcium scoring

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 358, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1394-1396

  Weintraub, William S ^a   Diamond, George A ^b  

^a CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CALIBRATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; ETHNICITY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; CALCINOSIS; CHEMISTRY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 41449092562     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe0800676     Document Type: Editorial

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