Older Adults ’ Perceptions of Their Risk and Its Correlation With Coronary Atherosclerosis Burden

Self-rated health (SRH) is an individual ’s self-evaluation of well-being, as influenced by social and biological factors, that correlates with cardiovascular risk factors, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and cardiac and all-cause mortality.1,2 Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring, which quantifies the burden of calcified coronary atheros clerosis by cardiac computed tomography, serves as a more exact and personalized measure of CVD risk than traditional 10-year atherosclerotic CVD risk scores by capturing lifetime exposure to traditional risk factors, additional risk enhancers, and genetic predisposition.
Source: Mayo Clinic Proceedings - Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Tags: Research letter Source Type: research