BACKGROUND Coronary artery calcification (CAC) may impair diagnostic assessment of coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA). We determined whether CAC affects efficiency of coronary CTA in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS). METHODS AND RESULTS This is a pooled analysis of ACRIN-PA (American College of Radiology Imaging Network-Pennsylvania) 4005 and the ROMICAT-II tr...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of mortality in the developed world. Although several CAD risk factors, including measures of lipid metabolism, obesity, and blood pressure, have a genetic basis, many genes for CAD susceptibility have yet to be identified. Coronary atherosclerosis is the major cause of CAD, but many with coronary atherosclerosis lack symptoms. Thus, a major li...

conclusion peripheral arterial calcification is significantly correlated with cad extent in patients with pad. peripheral arterial calcification can be a useful marker for predicting multivessel-cad. results lecs in multivessel-cad were significantly higher than those in nonsignificant cad (10.0 ± 5.8 versus 4.0 ± 3.1, p < 0.001). lecs significantly correlated with ccs (r = 0.831, p < 0.001) an...

BACKGROUND Although depression is a well-documented risk factor for clinical heart disease, its association with subclinical atherosclerosis is unclear. We hypothesized that middle-aged women with a history of recurrent major depression would show evidence of atherosclerosis. METHODS Coronary and aortic calcification was measured by electron beam tomography in 58 African American and 152 whit...

BACKGROUND Screening electron-beam computed tomography (EBCT) examinations for the detection and quantification of coronary artery calcification are being performed throughout the country. In addition to information about the heart, great vessels, and coronary arteries, these examinations include portions of the lungs, bony thorax, and upper abdomen. The purpose of this study was to determine t...

UNLABELLED The global coronary calcium score has been widely used in the evaluation of coronary plaque burden and cardiovascular disease events. In this study, we investigated the value of segmental coronary calcium score (SCCS) on the diagnosis and interventional treatment. We studied 87 patients with coronary angiography (CAG) and coronary CT angiography (CTA) by 320-slice dynamic volume CT (...

When calcification is identified in tibial or coronary arteries, it strongly predicts major ischemic events. Tibial events a manner independent of the degree associated atherosclerotic occlusive disease. We thus worked to uncover relationship between and calcification, influence cardiovascular risk factors on their extent, individual predictive value adverse limb (MALE MACE). retrospectively re...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the frequency, amount and distribution of target lesion calcification in patients undergoing transcatheter therapy for symptomatic coronary artery disease. BACKGROUND Coronary artery target lesion calcification may be an important determinant of response to transcatheter therapy: balloon angioplasty causes dissections in calcified lesions, ...

BACKGROUND Type 2 diabetics are at increased risk for vascular events, but the value of further risk stratification for coronary heart disease (CHD) in asymptomatic subjects is unclear. We examined the added value of coronary computed tomography angiography over clinical risk scores (United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study), and coronary artery calcium in a population-based cohort of asymptom...

background and purpose: coronary artery disease (cad) is the major cause of limitation in adults&apos; life. but it can be prevented by controlling its risk factors, modifying life style and educating the population about general health. besides, health education is one of the important issues about changing life style. nurses play an important role in health education .thus this study was perf...