Thoracic aortic calcification and coronary heart disease events: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 196-202

  Budoff, Matthew J ^a   Nasir, Khurram ^a,g   Katz, Ronit ^b   Takasu, Junichiro ^a   Carr, J Jeffery ^c   Wong, Nathan D ^d   Allison, Matthew ^e   Lima, Joao A C ^f   Detrano, Robert ^a   Blumenthal, Roger S ^g   Kronmal, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Cardiac CT; Coronary calcium; Multi detector CT; Prognosis; Thoracic atherosclerosis

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHINESE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORACIC AORTIC CALCIFICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79952101374     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.11.017     Document Type: Article

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