Aortic arch calcification is strongly associated with coronary artery calcification.

CONCLUSIONS: AAC is a strong and independent predictor of CAC. The discriminative performance of AAC is high in detecting patients with low- and high-risk CAC scores.
PMID: 25698388 [PubMed - in process]

Source: VASA. Zeitschrift fur Gefasskrankheiten. Journal for Vascular Diseases - February 27, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Adar A, Erkan H, Gokdeniz T, Karadeniz A, Cavusoglu IG, Onalan O Tags: Vasa Source Type: research