Thoracic versus coronary calcification for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events prediction

CONCLUSION: Our study demonstrated a significant association between TAC and CAC scores but a superior prognostic value of CAC score for ASCVD events. These findings suggest TAC on chest CT provides supplementary data to estimate ASCVD risk but does not replace CAC on ECG-gated cardiac CT.PMID:38627022 | DOI:10.1136/heartjnl-2023-323838

Source: Atherosclerosis - April 16, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Keishi Ichikawa Wang Rui Robyn L McClelland Venkat S Manubolu Shriraj Susarla Duo Lee Leili Pourafkari Hooman Fazlalizadeh Jairo Aldana Bitar Rick Robin April Kinninger Sion Roy Wendy S Post Matthew Budoff Source Type: research