Lifetime cardiovascular risk was calculated by the method of Berry et al (Circulation 2009;119:382-9). MESA arterial age was determined using the NHLBI online calculator (http://www.mesa-nhlbi.org/CACReference.aspx). Increasing lifetime cardiovascular risk was strongly related to prevalent CAC,...
The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) is a study of the characteristics of subclinical cardiovascular disease (disease detected non-invasively before…
One commonly stated limitation for clinical CAC scoring is the absence of a risk calculator for integrating this information into global cardiovascular risk assessment (31). Here, we present a predictive algorithm to integrate CAC measurement with traditional risk factors and demonstrate that a risk ...