First developed in 1990, the Agatston coronary artery calcium (CAC) score is an
international guideline-endorsed decision aid for further risk assessment and personalized …

Primary care physicians often must decide whether statin therapy would be appropriate (in
addition to lifestyle modification) for managing asymptomatic individuals with borderline or …

Importance Current guidelines recommend a few different approaches to the use of coronary
artery calcium (CAC) testing as a tool for risk assessment and decision-making regarding …

Importance Coronary artery calcium scores (CACS) are used to help assess patients'
cardiovascular status and risk. However, their best use in risk assessment beyond traditional …

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is a highly specific feature of coronary atherosclerosis. On
the basis of single-center and multicenter clinical and population-based studies with short …

Abstract An Expert Panel of the National Lipid Association reviewed the evidence related to
the use of coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring in clinical practice for adults seen for …

This expert consensus statement summarizes the available data regarding the prognostic
value of CAC in the asymptomatic population and its ability to refine individual risk …

While there is no doubt that high risk patients (those with> 20% ten year risk of future
cardiovascular event) need more aggressive preventive therapy, a majority of …

Background The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) showed that the addition of
coronary artery calcium (CAC) to traditional risk factors improves risk classification …

Background—The coronary artery calcium (CAC) score predicts future coronary heart
disease (CHD) events and could be used to guide primary prevention interventions, but …