Improving the Coronary Artery Calcium Score – Addition of Regional Measures of Calcium Distribution: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

OBJECTIVE: We investigated whether inclusion of simple measures of calcified plaque distribution might improve the ability of the traditional Agatston coronary artery calcium (CAC) score to predict cardiovascular events. BACKGROUND: Agatston CAC scoring does not include information on the location a...

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Publicado en:JACC Cardiovasc Imaging
Autores principales: Blaha, Michael J., Budoff, Matthew J., Tota-Maharaj, Rajesh, Dardari, Zeina A., Wong, Nathan D., Kronmal, Richard A., Eng, John, Post, Wendy S., Blumenthal, Roger S., Nasir, Khurram
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5055410/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27085449
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2016.03.001
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