Accelerated progression of coronary calcification: Four-year follow-up in patients with stable coronary artery disease

Radiology

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 201-209

  Shemesh, Joseph ^a   Koren Morag, Nira ^a   Apter, Sara ^a   Rozenman, Judith ^a   Kirwan, Bridget Anne ^b   Itzchak, Yacov ^a   Motro, Michael ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SOCAR RESEARCH SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), multi detector row; Coronary vessels, calcification; Coronary vessels, CT; Coronary vessels, diseases

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; SMOKING; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; ANTILIPEMIC AGENTS; CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 4644231497     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2331030712     Document Type: Article

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