Blaha added his interest is in patients with high calcium scores who are in the 90th percentile or have a score greater than 300. For high-risk patients, he said he recommends more aggressive lifestyle therapy and high-intensity statin therapy, alon...
The findings show that any calcium in white males at least 34 years old and Black males at least 37 years old places them at the 90th percentile. The researchers have published an online risk calculator based on CAC for patients specifically between the ages of 30 and 45 years. “Percentil...
By adding a CAC score, we can calculate a CAC percentile. This tells us how high a CAC score is compared to others of the same age, sex, and race (i.e. relative risk). It can also help with estimating lifetime risk, since most individuals’ CAC scores naturally grow along their per...