Coronary Artery Calcium Progression and Atrial Fibrillation: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  O'Neal, Wesley T ^a   Efird, Jimmy T ^b   Qureshi, Waqas T ^a   Yeboah, Joseph ^a   Alonso, Alvaro ^c   Heckbert, Susan R ^d   Nazarian, Saman ^e   Soliman, Elsayed Z ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; atrial fibrillation; coronary calcium; coronary vessels; epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; CALCIUM; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGATSTON SCORE; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLACK PERSON; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CAUCASIAN; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICARE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERY ELDERLY; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ETHNOLOGY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84951027864     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.115.003786     Document Type: Article

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