Relationship of Coronary Calcium on Standard Chest CT Scans With Mortality

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 152-159

  Hughes Austin, Jan M ^a,b   Dominguez, Arturo ^c   Allison, Matthew A ^b,c,d   Wassel, Christina L ^e   Rifkin, Dena E ^b,c,d   Morgan, Cindy G ^b   Daniels, Michael R ^b   Ikram, Umaira ^b   Knox, Jessica B ^b   Wright, C Michael ^f   Criqui, Michael H ^b   Ix, Joachim H ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

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

^f SCRIPPS HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

chest computed tomography; coronary artery calcium; epidemiology; mortality

Indexed keywords

AGATSTON SCORE; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY LIVING; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY RISK; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RISK; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN SELF-REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; STANDARD; WHOLE BODY CT; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TIME FACTOR; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84953341515     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.06.030     Document Type: Article

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