Does the coronary calcium score predict incident coronary heart disease beyond standard risk factors across different racial and ethnic groups?
Coronary calcium scoring provides significant predictive value for incident coronary heart disease beyond standard risk factors consistently across four major racial and ethnic groups.
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.
Detrano et al. (Wed,) studied this question.