The detection of any coronary calcium outperforms framingham risk score as a first step in screening for coronary atherosclerosis

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1235-1243

  Johnson, Kevin M ^a   Dowe, David A ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Atlantic Medical Imaging   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary calcium; Coronary ct angiography; Framingham risk score

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951969650     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2487     Document Type: Article

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