The Prevalence of Aortic Calcification in Japanese Compared to White and Japanese-American Middle-Aged Men is Confounded by the Amount of Cigarette Smoking

BACKGROUND: Prevalence of coronary artery calcification (CAC) in Japanese men is lower than in white and Japanese-American men. It is unclear if aortic calcification (AC) strongly linked to smoking is also lower in Japanese men who have many times higher smoking prevalence compared to US men. METHOD...

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Autores principales: El-Saed, Aiman, Curb, J. David, Kadowaki, Takashi, Okamura, Tomonori, Sutton-Tyrrell, Kim, Masaki, Kamal, Seto, Todd B., Takamiya, Tomoko, Choo, Jina, Edmundowicz, Daniel, Evans, Rhobert W., Fujiyoshi, Akira, Nakamura, Yasuyuki, Miura, Katsuyuki, Shin, Chol, Kuller, Lewis H., Ueshima, Hirotsugu, Sekikawa, Akira
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3328605/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22240754
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.12.060
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