… consecutive patients between October 2006 and November 2011. Of … patients, we included
357 with a zero calcium score in the study. Information regarding patient age, sex, coronary …

… CAC and no known coronary artery disease (CAD). Pretest … Patients were divided into
three groups based on degree of … and clinical characteristics were compared between the two …

… provide a definite exclusion for coronary artery disease (CAD). … The demographic and
clinical characteristics of patients … Therefore, only main effect model was built and results were …

… with a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score of zero and establish the demographic
characteristics and the … Influence of symptomatic status on the prevalence of obstructive …

… Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring has been introduced to evaluate the extent of coronary
atherosclerosis … by the presence of all three, two or one of the three features, respectively. …

… to study the prevalence and predictors of coronary artery disease in … Baseline and procedural
characteristics … Considering the extent of disease, all these patients had obstructive CAD in …

… Clinical data was collected to achieve information on demographic characteristics and risk
… for the presence of coronary atherosclerosis plaque and the degree of stenosis. Obstructive …

… (CACS) and to evaluate the affect of demographic features … the potential predictors of
coronary artery disease (both any … nor the definitive effects of intervention in patients, which have …

… surrogate marker for coronary atherosclerosis burden. Furthermore, … We analyzed plaque
characteristics on a per-segment basis … , the influence of post-test medical treatments, coronary …

… area under the receiver operating characteristic curve ([mean … one vessel; 172 patients (81%)
had a total calcium score >0. … score representing the overall risk that determined the extent …