Distribution and burden of newly detected coronary artery calcium: Results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 337-344.e1

  Alluri, Krishna ^a,b   McEvoy, John W ^b   Dardari, Zeina A ^b   Jones, Steven R ^b   Nasir, Khurram ^b,c   Blankstein, Ron ^d   Rivera, Juan J ^b,e   Agatston, Arthur A ^e   Kaufman, Joel D ^f,g   Budoff, Matthew J ^h   Blumenthal, Roger S ^b   Blaha, Michael J ^b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Baptist Health South Florida   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h LOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery calcium; Left anterior descending artery; Left circumflex artery; Left main artery; Right coronary artery

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CALCIUM; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; AGED; CAUSALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ETHNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION; VERY ELDERLY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84930902326     PISSN: 19345925     EISSN: 1876861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcct.2015.03.015     Document Type: Article

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