Age, Gender, and Race-Based Coronary Artery Calcium Score Percentiles in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 352-359

  Pereira, Alexandre C ^a   Gomez, Luz M ^a   Bittencourt, Marcio Sommer ^a   Staniak, Henrique Lane ^a   Sharovsky, Rodolfo ^a   Foppa, Murilo ^b   Blaha, Michael J ^c   Bensenor, Isabela M ^a   Lotufo, Paulo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLACK PERSON; BRAZILIAN; CAUCASIAN; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW RISK PATIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION RISK; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO;

EID: 84976320783     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.22539     Document Type: Article

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