Coronary artery calcification outperforms thoracic aortic calcification for the prediction of myocardial infarction and all-cause mortality: The Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1163-1170

  Kälsch, Hagen ^a   Lehmann, Nils ^b   Berg, Marie H ^b   Mahabadi, Amir A ^a   Mergen, Paul ^a   Möhlenkamp, Stefan ^a   Bauer, Marcus ^a   Kara, Kaffer ^a   Dragano, Nico ^c   Hoffmann, Barbara ^c,d   Moebus, Susanne ^b   Schmermund, Axel ^e   Stang, Andreas ^f   Jöckel, Karl Heinz ^b   Erbel, Raimund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d IUF LEIBNIZ RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^e Cardioangiological Center Bethanien   (Germany)

^f MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

all cause mortality; coronary artery calcification; myocardial infarction; risk prediction; Thoracic aortic calcification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; THORACIC AORTA CALCIFICATION; AGED; AORTIC DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC AORTA; TRENDS; AORTA DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACIC AORTIC CALCIFICATION;

AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; CALCINOSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84906547191     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: 20474881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2047487313482281     Document Type: Article

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