Warfarin use and prevalence of coronary artery calcification assessed by multislice computed tomography

American Journal of Therapeutics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 148-151

  Palaniswamy, Chandrasekar ^a   Aronow, Wilbert S ^a   Sekhri, Arunabh ^a   Adapa, Sreedhar ^a   Ahn, Chul ^b   Singh, Tarunjit ^a   Malhotra, Bharat ^a   Lerner, Robert ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

calcification; computed tomography; coronary artery calcium score; warfarin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG USE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; GENDER; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CALCINOSIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WARFARIN;

EID: 84900821108     PISSN: 10752765     EISSN: 15363686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MJT.0b013e318249a1c6     Document Type: Article

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