March 26, 2008New England Journal of Medicine2,989 citations
Coronary Calcium as a Predictor of Coronary Events in Four Racial or Ethnic Groups
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Structured PICO
Does the coronary calcium score predict incident coronary heart disease beyond standard risk factors across different racial and ethnic groups?
P
Population
Four major racial and ethnic groups in the United States
I
Intervention
Coronary calcium score
C
Comparator
Standard risk factors
O
Outcome
Incident coronary heart disease (coronary events)hard clinical
Coronary calcium scoring provides significant predictive value for incident coronary heart disease beyond standard risk factors consistently across four major racial and ethnic groups.
Abstract
The coronary calcium score is a strong predictor of incident coronary heart disease and provides predictive information beyond that provided by standard risk factors in four major racial and ethnic groups in the United States. No major differences among racial and ethnic groups in the predictive value of calcium scores were detected.
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Detrano et al. (2008) studied this question.