Coronary calcium score correlates with estimate of total plaque burden

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1050-1052

  Bajraktari, Gani ^a,b   Nicoll, Rachel ^a   Ibrahimi, Pranvera ^a,b   Jashari, Fisnik ^a,b   Schmermund, Axel ^c   Henein, Michael Y ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY CLINICAL CENTER OF KOSOVO   (Serbia)

^c Bethanien Krankenhaus Frankfurt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary artery disease; Coronary calcium score; Coronary computed tomography

Indexed keywords

BISOPROLOL; CALCIUM; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BODY MASS; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CALCIUM; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84880918228     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2012.10.082     Document Type: Article

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