Dyslipidemia, Coronary Artery Calcium, and Incident Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: Implications for Statin Therapy from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.

CONCLUSIONS: CAC may have the potential to help match statin therapy to absolute CVD risk. Across the spectrum of dyslipidemia, event rates similar to secondary prevention populations were observed for patients with CAC>=100. PMID: 24141324 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Circulation - October 20, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Martin SS, Blaha MJ, Blankstein R, Agatston AS, Rivera JJ, Virani SS, Ouyang P, Jones SR, Blumenthal RS, Budoff MJ, Nasir K Tags: Circulation Source Type: research