Coronary Artery Calcification by Computed Tomography in Epidemiologic Research and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

Both American and European guidelines recommend coronary artery calcification (CAC) as a tool for screening asymptomatic individuals at intermediate risk for coronary heart disease (CHD). These recommendations are based on epidemiologic studies mostly in the United States. We review (1) the use of C...

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Main Authors: Sekikawa, Akira, Curb, J. David, Edmundowicz, Daniel, Okamura, Tomonori, Choo, Jina, Fujiyoshi, Akira, Masaki, Kamal, Miura, Katsuyuki, Kuller, Lewis H., Shin, Chol, Ueshima, Hirotsugu
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Japan Epidemiological Association 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3362675/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22485011
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20110138
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