Coronary artery disease is the No. 1 cause of death in the developed world. Effective means
of treatment such as drug therapy to lower cholesterol levels are available, but clinical …

Coronary artery calcification is part of the development of atherosclerosis; it occurs
exclusively in atherosclerotic arteries and is absent in the normal vessel wall. Electron-beam …

Iron is an essential nutrient for virtually all organisms. The IRT1 (iron-regulated transporter)
gene of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana, encoding a probable Fe (II) transporter, was cloned …

Background Coronary calcium identified by electron-beam computed tomography (EBCT)
correlates poorly with luminal atherosclerotic narrowing, but calcium, an intimate part of …

The ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines herein revises and updates the original
“Guidelines for Coronary Angiography,” published in 1987 (1). The frequent and still …

Objectives. This study was designed to evaluate whether calcium deposition in the coronary
arteries is related to atherosclerotic plaque burden and narrowing of the arterial lumen …

Background Target lesion calcium is a marker for significant coronary artery disease and a
determinant of the success of transcatheter therapy. Methods and Results Eleven hundred …

Objectives: In this study, we systematically assessed the diagnostic and prognostic value of
absence of coronary artery calcification (CAC) in asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals …

Atherosclerotic calcification is an organized, regulated process similar to bone formation that
occurs only when other aspects of atherosclerosis are also present. Nonhepatic Gla …

The purpose of this study was to assess the value of electron beam computed tomography in
the detection of cardiac calcifications in coronaries and valves of dialysis patients and to …