BACKGROUND: Clinical guidelines emphasize risk assessment as vital to patient selection for medical primary intervention. However, risk assessment methods are restricted in their ability to predict further coronary events. The most widely accepted tool in the United States is the Framingham risk score. In these equations age is a powerful risk factor. Although the extent of coronary atheroscler...

CONTEXT Psychosocial factors, including personality and character traits, may play a role in the development and expression of coronary artery disease. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether hostility, a previously reported predictor of clinical coronary artery disease, is associated with coronary calcification, which is a marker of subclinical atherosclerosis. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SET...

Recently, investigators have begun evaluating the ability of spiral computed tomography (sequence scan mode-SEQ) to measure coronary calcium. Electron Beam Tomography (EBT) and SEQ studies were performed in 10 women and 23 men, with a mean age of 54+/-9 years. The EBT study was performed within 4 weeks (mean 11+/-4 days) of the SEQ with no clinical interval event (MI, revascularization). The me...

Introduction Patients with low coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores are deemed to be at low risk of future cardiac events. It is unclear what the prevalence of significant coronary disease is in these patients. It is also not established what cluster of traditional cardiovascular risk factors predict the presence of any coronary plaque in this group. We hypothesised patients with a calcium scor...

The growing prevalence of coronary artery disease, also in younger population, inspires constant development of coronary atherogenesis risk stratification and early diagnosis methods. The coronary artery calcium score is a simple parameter, requiring only a relatively small radiation dose to obtain in computed tomography. So far completed studies have provided consistent evidence in support of ...

Abstract Background Despite being a controversial subject, multiple guidelines mention the use of Coronary Artery Calcification (CAC) scoring in cardiovascular risk prediction asymptomatic population. Adding CAC score to European SCORE (Systematic Risk Evaluation) may improve MACE (Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events), providing better stratification. Purpose Our study aims evaluate impact seve...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the prognostic accuracy of electron beam computed tomographic (CT) scanning of the coronary arteries and the relationship of coronary calcification to standard coronary disease risk factors and C-reactive protein (CRP) in the prediction of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) events in apparently healthy middle-age persons. BACKG...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the prognostic accuracy of electron beam computed tomographic (CT) scanning of the coronary arteries and the relationship of coronary calcification to standard coronary disease risk factors and C-reactive protein (CRP) in the prediction of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) events in apparently healthy middle-age persons. BACKGRO...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To evaluate the capability of multidetector computed tomography to diagnose the coronary etiology of left ventricular dysfunction compared with using invasive coronary angiography and magnetic resonance. METHODS Forty consecutive patients with left ventricular dysfunction of uncertain etiology underwent invasive coronary angiography and contrast magnetic resonance....