Relations between digital thermal monitoring of vascular function, the Framingham risk score, and coronary artery calcium score

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 382-388

  Ahmadi, Naser ^a   Hajsadeghi, Fereshteh ^a   Gul, Khawar ^a   Vane, Jackson ^a   Usman, Nudrat ^a   Flores, Ferdinand ^a   Nasir, Khurram ^b   Hecht, Harvey ^c   Naghavi, Morteza ^b   Budoff, Matthew ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Association for Eradication of Heart Attack   (United States)

^c LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery calcium score; Coronary artery disease; Digital thermal monitoring; Framingham risk score

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CALCINOSIS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THERMOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56949103914     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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