Giving Calcification Its Due: Recognition of a Diverse Disease
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Giving Calcification Its Due: Recognition of a Diverse Disease: A First Attempt to Standardize the Field.
Cardiovascular calcification is a growing burden and a leading predictor of and contributor to acute cardiovascular events. Arterial calcification associates with a 4-fold increase in cardiovascular events, and patients with aortic valve calcification have a 5-year event-free survival rate of only 26%,1,2 worse than that of many cancers. Despite massive healthcare costs and extensive research e...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation Research
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0009-7330,1524-4571
DOI: 10.1161/circresaha.116.310060