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Establishing the warranty of a coronary artery calcium score of zero

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: The inherent limitations of traditional risk factor-based cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment [1] have triggered the development and implementation of imaging tests aimed at directly measuring the presence and burden of subclinical atherosclerosis in diverse vascular beds within individual patients. Such individualized disease assessment clearly trumps risk factors as the strongest predictor of incident CVD events and death [2]. The promising results of incorporating such imaging-based risk information into clinical decision-making has led experts to advance a CVD risk assessment paradigm shift from a risk-factor based model (prediction) to an atherosclerosis imaging-based approach (disease detection).

Source: Atherosclerosis

DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2014.10.084

Authors: Mahmoud Al Rifai, Miguel Cainzos-Achirica, Michael J. Blaha

Institutions: Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics

Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $4,020