Impact of Mitral Annular Calcification on Cardiovascular Events in a Multiethnic Community. The Northern Manhattan Study

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 617-623

  Kohsaka, Shun ^a   Jin, Zhezhen ^b   Rundek, Tatjana ^c   Boden Albala, Bernadette ^a   Homma, Shunichi ^a   Sacco, Ralph L ^c   Di Tullio, Marco R ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

calcium; cardiovascular diseases; echocardiography; mortality; stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL ANNULAR CALCIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; THICKNESS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; NEW YORK CITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 51549101991     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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