Implications of gender difference in coronary calcification as assessed by ct coronary angiography

Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology

Volumn 8, Issue Suppl. 4, 2015, Pages 51-55

  Makaryus, Amgad N ^a,b   Sison, Cristina ^c   Kohansieh, Michelle ^a   Makaryus, John N ^a  

^a DONALD AND BARBARA ZUCKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT HOFSTRA NORTHWELL   (United States)

^b NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Coronary computed tomography; Gender

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGATSTON SCORE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

EID: 84981742794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11795468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/CMC.S18764     Document Type: Article

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