Presence and severity of noncalcified coronary plaque on 64-slice computed tomographic coronary angiography in patients with zero and low coronary artery calcium

VY Cheng, NE Lepor, H Madyoon, S Eshaghian… - The American journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Patients were categorized by coronary calcium score. The “… Table 1 lists demographic
characteristics of these patients. Women … We evaluated the effect that underlying demographic …

Interpretation of the coronary artery calcium score in combination with conventional cardiovascular risk factors: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

MJ Pletcher, CT Sibley, M Pignone, E Vittinghoff… - Circulation, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
… individual characteristics should influence what CAC score a … the estimated prevalence of
a CAC score in the ranges of 0, 1 to … risk changes a different amount in different patients, and …

[HTML][HTML] … of zero calcium score and low-end percentiles for the presence of significant coronary artery stenosis in stable patients with suspected coronary artery disease

N Vogler, M Meyer, C Fink, UJ Schoepf… - RöFo-Fortschritte auf …, 2013 - thieme-connect.com
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is known to be the leading … possible to substantially reduce
the impact of these drawbacks, this … patient’s coronary plaques are calcified to a greater extent

… coronary CT angiography improve risk stratification over coronary calcium scoring in symptomatic patients with suspected coronary artery disease? Results from the …

MH Al-Mallah, W Qureshi, FY Lin… - European Heart …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… use to exclude significant coronary artery disease (CAD) for … The characteristics of the patients
in the study cohort are … % of symptomatic patients with a zero calcium score had evidence …

Coronary calcium score and computed tomography coronary angiography in high-risk asymptomatic subjects: assessment of diagnostic accuracy and prevalence of …

F Cademartiri, E Maffei, A Palumbo, S Seitun… - European …, 2010 - Springer
… of coronary atherosclerosis is widely performed using the … have assessed the impact of CTCA
in asymptomatic patients. In … , there were three patients with a zero calcium score (Tables 1 …

Using the coronary artery calcium score to predict coronary heart disease events: a systematic review and meta-analysis

MJ Pletcher, JA Tice, M Pignone… - Archives of internal …, 2004 - jamanetwork.com
… with a score of 0, and used a random-effects model for meta-… We grouped studies according
to study characteristics that … only one to measure coronary artery disease risk factors directly …

Coronary artery calcium score predicts long-term cardiovascular outcomes in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes

MH Lei, YL Wu, SL Chung, CC Chen… - … of Atherosclerosis and …, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Zero CAC was present in one-third of T2DM patients and … The baseline characteristics and
risk factors condition among … plaque burden must take into account the aggregated effect

Coronary artery calcium score for long-term risk classification in individuals with type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome from the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis

S Malik, Y Zhao, M Budoff, K Nasir… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
… A coronary artery calcium score of 0 was associated with low … Area under the receiver
operator characteristic curve and net … Our results extend the findings of prior publications 11 ,12 …

Calcification in atherosclerosis

N Alexopoulos, P Raggi - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2009 - nature.com
… that calcification may have a reparative, stabilizing effect on … mass and Agatston calcium
scores for this patient are 1710.9 … The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve to …

Coronary artery calcium scoring for individualized cardiovascular risk estimation in important patient subpopulations after the 2019 AHA/ACC primary prevention …

O Dzaye, R Dudum, C Reiter-Brennan… - Progress in …, 2019 - Elsevier
… such patients, according to the guidelines a CAC score of 0 … states that race/ethnic features
influence the risk of ASCVD and … prevalence of subclinical calcified coronary atherosclerosis (…