Improving the CAC Score by Addition of Regional Measures of Calcium Distribution: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1407-1416

  Blaha, Michael J ^a   Budoff, Matthew J ^b   Tota Maharaj, Rajesh ^a,c   Dardari, Zeina A ^a   Wong, Nathan D ^d   Kronmal, Richard A ^e   Eng, John ^f   Post, Wendy S ^a   Blumenthal, Roger S ^a   Nasir, Khurram ^a,g  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DANBURY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Baptist Health South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac computed tomography; risk prediction; risk stratification

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGATSTON SCORE; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; METABOLISM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AREA UNDER CURVE; CALCIUM; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84963516780     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2016.03.001     Document Type: Article

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