Ultrasound cardiac calcification as a marker of subclinical atherosclerosis and future cardiovascular events in clinical practice: Is there enough evidence?

In the current IJC issue, Di Minno et al. [1] report an informative systematic review and meta-analysis of prior studies assessing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in subjects categorized on the presence or absence of aortic valve sclerosis or calcification, using standard transthoracic echocardiography: they confirm that this simple and widely accessible marker is robustly associated with coronary artery disease (CAD), stroke and cardiovascular (CV) mortality, almost two decades after the report of this intriguing association by Catherine Otto [2].

Source: International Journal of Cardiology - April 3, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Nicola Gaibazzi, Carmine Mazzone, Pompilio Faggiano Tags: Editorial Source Type: research