Cross-sectional comparison of coronary artery calcium scores between Caucasian men in the United States and Japanese Men in Japan: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis and the Shiga epidemiological study of subclinical atherosclerosis

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 590-598

  Fujiyoshi, Akira ^a   Miura, Katsuyuki ^a   Ohkubo, Takayoshi ^a,b   Kadowaki, Takashi ^a   Kadowaki, Sayaka ^a   Zaid, Maryam ^a   Hisamatsu, Takashi ^a   Sekikawa, Akira ^a,c   Budoff, Matthew J ^a,d   Liu, Kiang ^e   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d LOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary artery calcium; Ethnic group; Men

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CROSS SECTION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; HYPERTENSION;

ADULT; AGATSTON SCORE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ASIAN; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MEN'S HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK; STATISTICS;

JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM; ETHNIC GROUP; MEN;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84907499588     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwu169     Document Type: Article

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