coronary artery calcification
Relationship between the triglyceride glucose index and coronary artery calcification in Korean adults
... Coronary artery calcification was determined using a multidetector CT scanner (Philips Brilliance 64; Philips Medical System, Best, The ...quantitative coronary artery calcifi- cation ...
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The Relationship between Coronary Artery Calcification and Renal Function in Nondialyzed Patients
... Purpose: Coronary artery calcification (CAC) has been described in individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and its presence is associated with an in- creased risk of cardiovascular ...
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FGF-23 associated with the progression of coronary artery calcification in hemodialysis patients
... vascular calcification is controversial in the ...aortic calcification in non-diabetic dialy- sis patients ...with calcification, suggesting an interaction between aortic calcification index ...
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Correlation between Measured and Visual Scoring of Coronary Artery Calcification
... Abstract Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is a well-known marker of subclinical coronary atherosclerosis, which is always detectable in non ECG-gated routine chest CT examinations, and its ...
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Evaluation of the association of Wnt signaling with coronary artery calcification in patients on dialysis with severe secondary hyperparathyroidism
... of coronary artery calcification (CAC) scores for certain patient groups ...by coronary angiography using Agatston units (AU) ...in coronary ar- tery vessels ...vascular ...
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The role of high sensitive crp and pentraxin iii in progression of coronary artery calcification in patients with coronary artery disease
... stroke, coronary ischemic disease, and overall mortality (Wu et ...and coronary artery calcification (CAC) in symptomatic individuals (Jenny et ...
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Famine in childhood and postmenopausal coronary artery calcification: a cohort study
... CACs are thought to be a re fl ection of the burden of intima lesions; hence, coronary atherosclerosis. 37 For aortic calci fi cations, it is not clear that these always re fl ect atherosclerosis. 38 Most of the ...
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The role of some drugs, Glycemic control and renal function test in patient with coronary artery calcification
... of calcification GI compared with GII , These finding pointed to the significant link of HbA1c and the severity of ...of coronary atherosclerosis in patients younger than 40 ...of calcification ...
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Sex difference in clot lysability and association to coronary artery calcification
... the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study [13], and other studies have reported an association between high fibrinogen levels and thrombosis ...
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MicroRNA 8059 as a marker for the presence and extent of coronary artery calcification
... Methods 24 age-matched and sex-matched patients who had been referred for elective CT coronary calcium score and angiography as part of investigation for cardiac chest pain were recruited. Peripheral venesection ...
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Triglyceride glucose index is an independent predictor for the progression of coronary artery calcification in the absence of heavy coronary artery calcification at baseline
... from Coronary Artery Risk Develop- ment in Young Adults (CARDIA) study revealed that transitions in metabolic risk occurred early in life and metabolic dysfunction is related to subclinical cardiovas- cular ...
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Predictors of Severe or Moderate Coronary Artery Disease in Asymptomatic Individuals with Extremely Low Coronary Calcium Scores
... of coronary artery disease and ad- verse events among symptomatic patients with coronary artery calcification scores of zero undergoing coronary computed to- mography ...
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Coronary calcium in patients with and without diabetes: first manifestation of acute or chronic coronary events is characterized by different calcification patterns
... Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is a well established surrogate marker of the total burden of coronary athero- sclerosis ...for coronary artery disease (CAD) re- lated events ...
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Causes of changes in carotid intima-media thickness: a literature review
... Atherosclerosis is an important pathologic cause of car- diovascular (CV) and cerebrovascular diseases. Add- itionally, CV and cerebrovascular diseases are the leading causes of mortality in humans and can have sig- ...
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GDF-15 plasma levels in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are associated with subclinical coronary artery disease
... CAC: Coronary artery calcification; CHD: Coronary heart disease; CI: Confidence interval; COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; COPDGene: Genetic Epidemiology of COPD Study; CVD: ...
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Cardiac computed tomography in patients with symptomatic new-onset atrial fibrillation, rule-out acute coronary syndrome, but with intermediate pretest probability for coronary artery disease admitted to a chest pain unit
... Still, coronary artery disease (CAD) leading to myocardial ischemia is the most common cause for admission to a ...of coronary artery calcification (CAC) for risk stratifica- tion in ...
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Vol 1, No 1 (2013)
... valvular calcification, although the strength of the association varies and may only be modest for associations with ...between calcification prevalence at various sites, it is clear that ...
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Intrinsic calcification angle: a novel feature of the vulnerable coronary plaque in patients with type 2 diabetes: an optical coherence tomography study
... Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is a known fea- ture of atherosclerosis [1] and extensive CAC is associ- ated with a higher risk for cardiovascular events ...acute coronary syndromes (ACS) ...
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Soluble Klotho is not independently associated with cardiovascular disease in a population of dialysis patients
... Aorta Calcification score; ARB: Angiotensin Receptor Blocker; CACscore: Coronary Artery Calcification score; CAD: Coronary Artery Disease; CKD: Chronic Kidney Disease; CVD: ...
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Increased plasma BMP-2 levels are associated with atherosclerosis burden and coronary calcification in type 2 diabetic patients
... BMP-2 is associated with CAD in patients with T2DM Recent studies have demonstrated that BMP-2 plays an important role in both physiological and pathological vascular processes [32,33]. VSMCs represent a significant ...
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