Coronary calcium scoring and cardiovascular risk: The SHAPE of things to come

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1027-1028

  Pletcher, Mark J ^a   Greenland, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 44349099860     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.168.10.1027     Document Type: Editorial

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