ACCF/AHA 2007 Clinical Expert Consensus Document on Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring By Computed Tomography in Global Cardiovascular Risk Assessment and in Evaluation of Patients With Chest Pain
Journal of the American College of CardiologyPublished 1 January 2007
Philip Greenland, Robert O. Bonow, Bruce H. Brundage, Matthew J. Budoff, Mark J. Eisenberg, Scott M. Grundy
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Preamble......379 Introduction......380 Consensus Statement Method......380 Introduction to CAC Measurement......381 Role of Risk Assessment in Cardiovascular Medicine......381 Matching Intensity of Intervention With Severity of Risk......382 Current Approaches to Global Risk Assessment and to
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The notion that diabetes mellitus causes accelerated atherosclerosis, even in the presence of statin therapy, is supported and evidence that coronary calcium monitoring is an effective method to assess treatment efficacy is provided.
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This prospective, blinded study indicates that EBCT detected CC accurately and can noninvasively distinguish between cardiomyopathy because of CAD and nonischemic causes of left ventricular dysfunction.
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96 Citations2001Songshou Mao, Hamid Bakhsheshi +4 more
Study results strongly support the use of an ECG trigger of 40% rather than 80% of the R-R interval in electron-beam CT calcium studies, and interscan variation was compared among all five groups.
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86 Citations2001Kim Sutton‐Tyrrell, Lewis H. Kuller +5 more
Electron beam tomography permits the noninvasive quantification of coronary and aortic calcium as a marker of atherosclerosis and can be observed over a short time in healthy middle- aged women.
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79 Citations2000David M. Shavelle, Matthew J. Budoff +4 more
Electron beam computed tomography is an accurate and noninvasive alternative to traditional stress testing for the detection of obstructive CAD in symptomatic patients.
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The contextual framework for racial classification in biomedical research will likely remain controversial and highly scrutinized, especially in the United States, because race and ethnicity historically have been used as social instruments for subjugation and discrimination.
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The high prevalence of CC in asymptomatic persons with diabetes supports the need for aggressive management of diabetes and associated risk factors and confirms that higher CC scores should be used in diabetic patients to improve the specificity of CC to determine obstructive disease.
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