Introduction: Coronary artery calcium score (CACS) is a known predictor of cardiac events, however its association with inpatient mortality in COVID-19 infection remains unknown. Hypothesis: We hypothesized that elevated CACS is associated with increased mortality in inpatient patients with COVID-19. ...
This cross-sectional study compares coronary artery calcium scores in patients with moderate to severe psoriasis, type 2 diabetes, and healthy controls.
Coronary artery calcium score of 0, carotid intima-media thickness <25th percentile, absence of carotid plaque, brachial flow-mediated dilation >5% change, ankle-brachial index >0.9 and <1.3, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein <2 mg/L, homocysteine <10 µmol/L, N-terminal pro-brain ...
CACscore was noted to be 306.6. By eachcoronary vessel, the CAC score of the left main was 114, left anterior descending artery was 132, left circumflex artery was 8.4, and the rightcoronary arterywas 52. Patient’s coronary calcium burden puts him at the 98th percentile for his age, ra...
it negates the advantage of women over men and of youth over older age in prevalence and extent of atherosclerosis. Hoff et al. utilized a large database to calculate the age and gender normative (percentile) distribution of calcium scores in asymptomatic (self-reported) diabetic individuals [62...
Coronary artery risk development in young adults MESA: Multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis GeneSTAR: Genetic study of atherosclerosis risk GENOA: Genetic epidemiology network of arteriopathy CT: Computed tomography CAF: Coded allele frequency QQ: Quantile-quantile plot HWE: Hardy-Weinberg equi...
CAC score between 101 and 400 and >75th percentile = initiate statin therapy Initiate statin therapy CCS Downgrade risk, withhold statin Personal decision making needed Initiate statin therapy — NICE Downgrade risk, withhold statin — + Statin — JAS — — — — CSC — — — — This table ...
Absolute coronary artery calcium scores are superior to MESA percentile rank in predicting obstructive coronary artery disease. Background Coronary artery calcium scoring (CAC) is an excellent non-invasive method to evaluate coronary atherosclerotic burden. To better predict the ris... K Akram,S Voros...
Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) Score CAC is an established noninvasive screening test for CAD. It involves a non-contrast CT of the heart, which totals identified coronary artery calcium, a component of atherosclerosis. A large prospective cohort study found that CAC improved the detection of at-...
whereby participants were categorised into individuals that had greater than or equal to 50 percentile CAC score after adjusting for their age and gender (sCAD+) and individuals with no coronary artery calcification (sCAD−). The Lipid Risk Score (LRS) built in the study had similar predictive...