Disagreement between different definitions of coronary artery calcium progression

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 743-744

  Paixao, Andre R M ^a   Chakravorty, Ripa ^a   Khera, Amit ^a   Leonard, David ^a   Defina, Laura F ^a   Barlow, Carolyn E ^a   Radford, Nina B ^a   Levine, Benjamin D ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; LOW RISK POPULATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

CALCIUM;

CALCINOSIS; CALCIUM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84930717043     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2014.07.019     Document Type: Letter

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