Use of risk assessment tools to guide decision-making in the primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: a special report from the American Heart …

DM Lloyd-Jones, LT Braun, CE Ndumele, SC Smith Jr… - Circulation, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Risk assessment is a critical step in the current approach to primary prevention of
atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Knowledge of the 10-year risk for atherosclerotic …

Nontraditional risk factors in cardiovascular disease risk assessment: updated evidence report and systematic review for the US Preventive Services Task Force

JS Lin, CV Evans, E Johnson, N Redmond… - Jama, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Incorporating nontraditional risk factors may improve the performance of
traditional multivariable risk assessment for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Objective To …

Ten-year association of coronary artery calcium with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) events: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)

MJ Budoff, R Young, G Burke, J Jeffrey Carr… - European heart …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Aims While coronary artery calcium (CAC) has been extensively validated for predicting
clinical events, most outcome studies of CAC have evaluated coronary heart disease (CHD) …

The National Lipid Association scientific statement on coronary artery calcium scoring to guide preventive strategies for ASCVD risk reduction

CE Orringer, MJ Blaha, R Blankstein, MJ Budoff… - Journal of clinical …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Association of coronary artery calcium in adults aged 32 to 46 years with incident coronary heart disease and death

JJ Carr, DR Jacobs, JG Terry, CM Shay… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is associated with coronary heart disease (CHD)
and cardiovascular disease (CVD); however, prognostic data on CAC are limited in younger …

Automatic coronary artery calcium scoring in cardiac CT angiography using paired convolutional neural networks

JM Wolterink, T Leiner, BD de Vos… - Medical image …, 2016 - Elsevier
The amount of coronary artery calcification (CAC) is a strong and independent predictor of
cardiovascular events. CAC is clinically quantified in cardiac calcium scoring CT (CSCT), but …

[HTML][HTML] Visually estimated coronary artery calcium score improves SPECT-MPI risk stratification

C Trpkov, A Savtchenko, Z Liang, P Feng… - IJC Heart & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Aims Computed tomographic attenuation correction (CTAC) scans for single photon
emission computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (SPECT-MPI) may reveal …

Radiotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity: the role of multimodality cardiovascular imaging

T Podlesnikar, B Berlot, J Dolenc, K Goričar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Radiotherapy (RT) is one of the pillars of cancer therapy. High-dose radiation exposure on
the thorax is mainly used in the context of adjuvant RT after breast surgery, in lung and …

Prevalence, determinants and prognostic value of high coronary artery calcium score in asymptomatic patients with diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

MA Sow, J Magne, L Salle, E Nobecourt… - Journal of Diabetes and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The pharmacological management of diabetes is mostly based on its
cardiovascular risk assessment. For this purpose, coronary artery calcium score (CACS) is …

Managing ischemic heart disease in women: role of a women's heart center

A Khandelwal, M Bakir, M Bezaire, B Costello… - Current atherosclerosis …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Heart centers for women (HCW) were developed due to the
rising cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in women in the United States in the early …