My approach to using coronary artery calcium scoring in primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease

Trends Cardiovasc Med. 2016 Feb;26(2):205-6. doi: 10.1016/j.tcm.2015.05.019. Epub 2015 Oct 22.

Authors

Erin D Michos¹, Roger S Blumenthal², Lena M Mathews³

Affiliations

¹ Associate Professor of Medicine, Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Electronic address: edonnell@jhmi.edu.
² Director of the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, The Kenneth Jay Pollin Professor of Cardiology, Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. Electronic address: rblument@jhmi.edu.
³ Clinical Cardiology Fellow, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

PMID: 26754921
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcm.2015.05.019

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MeSH terms

Calcium* / analysis
Calcium* / metabolism
Coronary Artery Disease* / diagnosis
Coronary Artery Disease* / metabolism
Coronary Artery Disease* / prevention & control
Coronary Vessels* / metabolism
Coronary Vessels* / pathology
Humans
Primary Prevention / methods
Research Design
Risk Assessment / methods

Substances

Calcium