Differences in prevalence and extent of coronary artery calcium detected by ultrafast computed tomography in asymptomatic men and women

WR Janowitz, AS Agatston, G Kaplan… - The American journal of …, 1993 - Elsevier
… of total calcium score for clinical coronary artery disease have not … There are several
characteristics of the percentile curves that … effect is gone, as evidenced by the similar distribution …

Impact of statins on cardiovascular outcomes following coronary artery calcium scoring

JD Mitchell, N Fergestrom, BF Gage, R Paisley… - Journal of the American …, 2018 - jacc.org
characteristics and CAC scores were compared between … measures coronary atherosclerosis
resulting from the patient’s … -weighted analysis, patients with CAC 0 had no benefit from …

Long-term prognosis associated with coronary calcification: observations from a registry of 25,253 patients

MJ Budoff, LJ Shaw, ST Liu, SR Weinstein… - Journal of the American …, 2007 - jacc.org
… mortality differences between patients with CAC scores of 0, 1 to … Each increment of calcium
score was associated with … , despite some high risk attributes, might be at sufficiently low risk …

Coronary artery calcium scoring and its impact on the clinical practice in the era of multidetector CT

J Lee - The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, 2011 - Springer
… a good indicator of the extent of atherosclerotic disease [3]. … characteristics of zero calcium
and its clinical impact may be … CAC scoring for further evaluation of coronary atherosclerosis

Femoral and carotid subclinical atherosclerosis association with risk factors and coronary calcium: the AWHS study

M Laclaustra, JA Casasnovas… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - jacc.org
… of coronary calcium was defined as any calcium score ≥1 … of early atherosclerosis with
characteristics not considered in … reproduces this known higher clinical effect of tobacco on the …

Prognostic value of segment involvement score compared to other measures of coronary atherosclerosis by computed tomography: a systematic review and meta …

C Ayoub, F Erthal, MA Abdelsalam, MH Murad… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
… Study and patient characteristics of the included articles are … Coronary artery calcium score
and associated pooled … predictive effect in our pooled analysis. Hazard ratios for Agatston …

Impact of clinical presentation and pretest likelihood on the relation between calcium score and computed tomographic coronary angiography

JM van Werkhoven, SM de Boer, JD Schuijf… - The American journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
… Baseline characteristics of the patient population are … Prevalence of significant coronary
artery disease on computed … the relation between CCS and CTA in patients with a CCS >0, we …

Association of age with the diagnostic value of coronary artery calcium score for ruling out coronary stenosis in symptomatic patients

MB Mortensen, S Gaur, A Frimmer, HE Bøtker… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
… B, Prevalence of CAC score of 0 among patients with … a CAC score of 0 does not exclude
coronary atherosclerosis. Although … Baseline characteristics of the patients included in the study …

Prognostic value of coronary calcium score in asymptomatic individuals: a systematic review

L Tramontano, B Punzo, A Clemente, S Seitun… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
… or 0 scores, death was linked more to cancer than to cardiac … See Table 1 for more details
for patients characteristics. … in the effect of the CAC score on all-cause mortality in patients with …

Coronary artery calcium scoring: is it time for a change in methodology?

MJ Blaha, MB Mortensen, S Kianoush… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2017 - jacc.org
… ” to reduce the influence of image noise. The Agatston … in patients scored as CAC = 0, and
many older patients with … volume and density as distinct plaque features with independent …