Breast arterial calcifications on mammograms do not predict coronary heart disease at coronary angiography

Radiology

Volumn 254, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 367-373

  Zgheib, Mohammad H ^a   Buchbinder, Shalom S ^a   Rafeh, Nidal Abi ^a   Elya, Marwan ^a   Raia, Carolyn ^a   Ahern, Kathleen ^b   Smith, Marianne C ^a   Costantino, Thomas ^a   Flory, Michael J ^c   Lafferty, James C ^a   Castellanos, Mario R ^a  

^a STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WAGNER COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BREAST ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BREAST; CALCINOSIS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; BREAST; CALCINOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLE SIZE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77449093879     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.09090102     Document Type: Article

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