Coronary calcium predicts events better with absolute calcium scores than age-sex-race/ethnicity percentiles: MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis)

MJ Budoff, K Nasir, RL McClelland, R Detrano… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - jacc.org
characteristic curve (AUC) than when using absolute scores (… overall magnitude of coronary
atherosclerotic plaque burden … 50% of participants having zero calcium. The positive portion …

Coronary calcification, coronary disease risk factors, C-reactive protein, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events: the St. Francis Heart Study

Y Arad, KJ Goodman, M Roth, D Newstein… - Journal of the American …, 2005 - jacc.org
… In order to avoid the confounding effect of treatment, subjects … calculation of baseline
characteristics, subjects with scores above the … to subjects with calcium scores of zero. Analysis of …

[HTML][HTML] Coronary artery calcium scoring, what is answered and what questions remain

G Youssef, MJ Budoff - Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… : 60% of coronary atherosclerotic events occur in patients in low or … diabetics, the prevalence
of zero calcium score in non … Coronary artery calcium scoring and its impact on the clinical …

Influence of the coronary calcium score on the ability to rule out coronary artery stenoses by coronary CT angiography in patients with suspected coronary artery …

A Schuhbaeck, J Schmid, T Zimmer, G Muschiol… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
patients with suspected coronary artery disease in whom … characteristics had been obtained
by a standardized patient0–152), with calcium present in 1582 of 2614 patients (60.5%). …

Coronary artery calcium score and risk classification for coronary heart disease prediction

TS Polonsky, RL McClelland, NW Jorgensen, DE Bild… - Jama, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
… Five-year risk estimates for incident CHD were categorized as 0… We constructed receiver
operating characteristic (ROC) curves … coronary events would have been influenced by CACS. …

Assessment of Agatston coronary artery calcium score using contrast-enhanced CT coronary angiography

N van der Bijl, RMS Joemai, J Geleijns… - American journal of …, 2010 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
… of a zero or low calcium score in symptomatic patients remains … what the effect of using
CTA-derived calcium scores by … characteristics and the presence or absence of other risk factors …

Metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and incidence and progression of coronary calcium: the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis study

ND Wong, JC Nelson, T Granston, AG Bertoni… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2012 - jacc.org
… Agatston calcium score. In addition, progression predicted … Detectable calcium was defined
as a CAC score >0. A second … , down-weighting the influence of participants with very large …

Relationship between coronary artery calcium and atherosclerosis progression among patients with suspected coronary artery disease

EJ Hollenberg, F Lin, MJ Blaha, MJ Budoff… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - jacc.org
… and major coronary artery disease (CAD) events. When … -risk plaque features varied for
patients with 0 CAC scores as … evidence that the extent of coronary calcification corresponds to …

Incremental prognostic value of coronary artery calcium score versus CT angiography among symptomatic patients without known coronary artery disease

E Hulten, MS Bittencourt, B Ghoshhajra, D O'Leary… - Atherosclerosis, 2014 - Elsevier
coronary artery disease (CAD) in comparison with coronaryinfluence the prognosis of
patients who have zero calcium … However, the characteristics of patients who were included in …

Gender Differences in Subclinical Coronary Atherosclerosis in the Asian Population With a Coronary Artery Calcium Score of Zero

SC Yang, YJ Wu, WH Wang, FZ Wu - The American Journal of Cardiology, 2023 - Elsevier
… the influence of age and gender on the extent of subclinical coronary atherosclerotic burden
… kinds of vulnerable plaque features in the same plaque in a single coronary segment. In the …