We evaluated the impact of arterial age calculation on reclassification of global coronary heart disease risk using the Framingham risk score. We applied CHD risk factor data from the Prospective Army Coronary Calcium Project to the MESA arterial age calculator (available at http://www.mesa-nhlbi....
Alternatively, see the online calculator on the MESA Website. CAC = coronary artery calcium; other abbreviations as in Table 1. Figure 1 illustrates the internal discrimination properties of our 2 models. The area under the survival ROC curve within MESA was 0.81 for the model with CAC, ...