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Coronary calcifications in young patients with first, unheralded myocardial infarction: a risk factor matched analysis by electron beam tomography
- Source :
- Heart. 89:625-628
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 2003.
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Abstract
- Objective: To compare the presence and extent of coronary calcifications in young patients with first, unheralded acute myocardial infarction with matched controls without a history of coronary artery disease. Methods: In 102 patients under 60 years of age (19–59 years, mean 41 years; 88% male), electron beam tomography was done 1–14 days after acute myocardial infarction, before any coronary intervention. Coronary calcifications were quantified using the Agatston score. Age related calcium centiles were determined based on the Mayo Clinic “epidemiology of coronary calcification” study, and results were compared with a group of 102 controls without coronary artery disease, matched for sex, age, and risk factors. Results: Calcifications were present in 95.1% of patients with acute myocardial infarction and in 59.1% of controls (p = 0.008). The mean (SD) Agatston score was 529 (901) in the infarct patients versus 119 (213) in the controls (p < 0.001). An Agatston score above the 50th centile was present in 87.2% of infarct patients and 47.0% of controls (p = 0.006), and above the 90th centile in 60.7% of infarct patients and only 5.8% of controls (p = 0.001). Conclusions: In young patients with their first, unheralded acute myocardial infarction, the presence and extent of coronary calcium are significantly greater than in matched controls.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Myocardial Infarction
Coronary Artery Disease
Cardiovascular Medicine
Electron beam tomography
Coronary artery disease
Age Distribution
Risk Factors
Calcinosis
medicine
Humans
cardiovascular diseases
Myocardial infarction
Risk factor
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Vascular disease
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Case-Control Studies
Female
Radiology
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Agatston score
business
Calcification
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Details
- ISSN :
- 00070769
- Volume :
- 89
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Heart
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b81cb7af17290baaf8bb60361f12ecc5