Discordance between Risk Factors and Coronary Artery Calcium: Implications for Guiding Treatment Strategies in Primary Prevention Settings.

doi:10.1016/j.pcad.2015.05.006

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Discordance between Risk Factors and Coronary Artery Calcium: Implications for Guiding Treatment Strategies in Primary Prevention Settings.

Progress in cardiovascular diseases - 1 Jan 2000

Joshi Parag H, Nasir Khurram

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Preventive efforts including smoking cessation campaigns, increased awareness of healthy lifestyle habits, risk factor modification, and the appropriate use of statins have been successful in reducing cardiovascular mortality over the last decade. The coronary artery calcium (CAC) scan has reliably been an additive predictor to traditional risk estimation methods, partly because of the heterogeneity between risk...

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PMID: 25982215
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2015.05.006

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