Coronary artery calcification score
Plasma levels of advanced glycation endproducts are associated with type 1 diabetes and coronary artery calcification
... high coronary artery calcification score The associations of AGEs with CAC were analysed in T1DM only, due to the low number of individuals with a CAC score >10 in the control ...CAC ...
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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 ...
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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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The role of some drugs, Glycemic control and renal function test in patient with coronary artery calcification
... the Coronary calcium scans are also called cardiac calcium scoring (Maury and Brichard ...in coronary arteries is known to be a strong indicator for coronary artery disease (CAD), It has been ...
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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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MicroRNA 8059 as a marker for the presence and extent of coronary artery calcification
... Coronary artery calcium scores (CACS) were obtained using a General Electric (GE) VCT XTe 64-slice CT ...calcium score calculated using the GE Advantage Work- station ...CT coronary ...
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Sex difference in clot lysability and association to coronary artery calcification
... Risk Score (DanRisk) study [22] was performed at four hospitals (Svendborg, Odense, Vejle, and Esbjerg) in Southern Denmark from 2009 to ...percutaneous coronary revascularization or coronary by-pass ...
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Evaluation of the association of Wnt signaling with coronary artery calcification in patients on dialysis with severe secondary hyperparathyroidism
... The demographic and clinical data of the study group included baseline demographic data, DEXA measure- ment data, and CAC data (Table 1). All patients received bone scans which included four lumbar vertebrae (L1– L4) and ...
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The Relationship between Coronary Artery Calcification and Renal Function in Nondialyzed Patients
... CAC score and various pa- rameters were evaluated, the distribution of CAC scores was non-normal; subsequently, the analysis comparing CAC score and renal function was performed using log- transformed [In ...
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Associations between COPD related manifestations: a cross-sectional study
... Agatston score [10]. Calcification was defined as an area ≥1 mm 2 in the axial plane of a coronary artery or the thoracic aorta with an attenuation threshold of ≥130 Hounsfield ...each ...
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Predictors of Severe or Moderate Coronary Artery Disease in Asymptomatic Individuals with Extremely Low Coronary Calcium Scores
... small calcification, such as a CAC score of 1 to 9, itself was associated with moderate CAD, but not indepen- dently associated with severe CAD, compared with zero ...small calcification (CAC 1–9) ...
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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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The association between soluble klotho and cardiovascular parameters in chronic kidney disease: results from the KNOW-CKD study
... aorta calcification; ANOVA: one-way analysis of variance; BMI: body mass index; CACS: coronary artery calcium score; CI: confidence interval; CKD: chronic kidney disease; CKD-EPI: Chronic ...
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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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Famine in childhood and postmenopausal coronary artery calcification: a cohort study
... acquisition, coronary artery calci fi cation (CAC) was quanti fi ed using Agatston ’ s method 26 on the ...continuous score was dichotomised at a cut-off of 100 due to its highly skewed ...
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Relationship between the triglyceride glucose index and coronary artery calcification in Korean adults
... CAC: coronary artery calcification; CACS: coronary artery calcium score; CT: computed tomography; CVD: cardiovascular disease; IR: insulin resistance; BMI: body mass index; BP: ...
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A zero coronary artery calcium score in patients with stable chest pain is associated with a good prognosis, despite risk of non-calcified plaques
... A total of 289 patients did not undergo CTCA after CAC scoring (159 patients with a zero CAC and 130 with non-zero CAC). The decision to perform a CTCA after CAC scoring was in line with contemporaneous clinical ...
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High Dephosphorylated-Uncarboxylated MGP in Hemodialysis patients: risk factors and response to vitamin K2, A pre-post intervention clinical trial
... smoking, coronary artery disease (CAD), previous parathyroidectomy (PTHX), recent fracture (in the last 6 months), calcium and non-calcium-based phosphate binders (NCBB) use and daily dose, cinacalcet use, ...
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Coronary artery calcium (CAC) score – a prognostic tool in coronary artery disease?
... Calcium score measurement in patients with normal stress myocardial perfusion scintigraphy, may be useful in risk stratification of the patients.. Further prospective studies with [r] ...
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Optical coherence tomography versus intravascular ultrasound to evaluate stent implantation in patients with calci c coronary artery disease
... percutaneous coronary inter- vention with adjunctive rotational atherectomy for undi- latable calci fi c coronary artery disease at the Edinburgh Heart Centre were ...
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