SPECTRUM OF CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM (CAC) ACCORDING TO AGE, GENDER, RACE IN A MULTI-ETHNIC ASIAN POPULATION

Authors :: Swee Yaw Tan
Lohendran Baskaran
Terrance Chua Siang Jin
Jien Sze Ho
Foong Koon Cheah
Felix Keng Yung Jih
Seyed Ehsan Saffari
Shu Yun Heng
Source :: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 71:A1680
Publication Year :: 2018
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2018.
Abstract: Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) is highly associated with the presence of coronary atherosclerotic plaque that has prognostic value towards cardiovascular events. It has shown that CAC varies among different ethnic groups in the same age and gender. Studies looking at the spectrum of CAC in the multi

Subjects :: endocrine system diseases
business.industry
Ethnic group
nutritional and metabolic diseases
Age and gender
Race (biology)
Coronary artery calcium
cardiovascular system
Asian population
population characteristics
Medicine
cardiovascular diseases
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Value (mathematics)
Demography

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