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June 23, 2008Archives of Internal Medicine687 citationsOpen Access

Coronary Artery Calcification Compared With Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in the Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease IncidenceThe Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

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AFAaron R. Folsom

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Does Coronary Artery Calcification (CAC) score predict Cardiovascular Disease Incidence better than Carotid Intima-Media Thickness (IMT)?

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Population
Participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
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Intervention
Coronary Artery Calcification (CAC) score
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Comparator
Carotid Intima-Media Thickness (IMT)
O
Outcome
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Incidencehard clinical

Coronary artery calcification scoring is superior to carotid intima-media thickness for predicting incident cardiovascular disease events.

Abstract

Although whether and how to clinically use bioimaging tests of subclinical atherosclerosis remains a topic of debate, this study found that CAC score is a better predictor of subsequent CVD events than carotid IMT.

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Aaron R. Folsom (2008) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d575db493d9d40f8442685https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.168.12.1333
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