What does my patient's coronary artery calcium score mean? Combining information from the coronary artery calcium score with information from conventional risk factors to estimate coronary heart disease risk

BACKGROUND: The coronary artery calcium (CAC) score is an independent predictor of coronary heart disease. We sought to combine information from the CAC score with information from conventional cardiac risk factors to produce post-test risk estimates, and to determine whether the score may add clini...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Pletcher, Mark J, Tice, Jeffrey A, Pignone, Michael, McCulloch, Charles, Callister, Tracy Q, Browner, Warren S
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: BioMed Central 2004
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC515311/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15327691
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-2-31
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