Comparison of the coronary calcium score with the estimated coronary risk

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 475-479

  Sung, Jidong ^a,c   Lim, Su Jin ^d   Choe, Yeonhyeon ^b   Choi, Yoon Ho ^c   Lee, Moon Kyu ^c   Lee, Sang Hoon ^a   Hong, Kyung Pyo ^a   Park, Jeong Euy ^a  

^a Division of Cardiology

^b Cardiac and Vascular Center   (South Korea)

^c Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Gimhae Bokum Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Coronary atherosclerosis; Coronary calcium score

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 55749097783     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCA.0b013e3283078f9f     Document Type: Article

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