Abstract:
:Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is a highly specific feature of coronary atherosclerosis. On the basis of single-center and multicenter clinical and population-based studies with short-term and long-term outcomes data (up to 15-year follow-up), CAC scoring has emerged as a widely available, consistent, and reproducible means of assessing risk for major cardiovascular outcomes, especially useful in asymptomatic people for planning primary prevention interventions such as statins and aspirin. CAC testing in asymptomatic populations is cost effective across a broad range of baseline risk. This review summarizes evidence concerning CAC, including its pathobiology, modalities for detection, predictive role, use in prediction scoring algorithms, CAC progression, evidence that CAC changes the clinical approach to the patient and patient behavior, novel applications of CAC, future directions in scoring CAC scans, and new CAC guidelines.
journal_name
J Am Coll Cardioljournal_title
Journal of the American College of Cardiologyauthors
Greenland P,Blaha MJ,Budoff MJ,Erbel R,Watson KEdoi
10.1016/j.jacc.2018.05.027subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-07-24 00:00:00pages
434-447issue
4eissn
0735-1097issn
1558-3597pii
S0735-1097(18)34936-2journal_volume
72pub_type
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