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SUBMITTER: Kianoush S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5705470 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kianoush Sina S Al Rifai Mahmoud M Cainzos-Achirica Miguel M Al-Mallah Mouaz H MH Tison Geoffrey H GH Yeboah Joseph J Miedema Michael D MD Allison Matthew A MA Wong Nathan D ND DeFilippis Andrew P AP Longstreth William W Nasir Khurram K Budoff Matthew J MJ Matsushita Kunihiro K Blaha Michael J MJ
Atherosclerosis 20171007
<h4>Background and aims</h4>Atherosclerosis is a systemic disease. We examined whether the cumulative burden of thoracic extra-coronary calcification (ECC) improves prediction of stroke, transient ischemic attack (TIA), and stroke mortality beyond traditional risk factors and coronary artery calcium (CAC).<h4>Methods</h4>We followed a total of 6805 participants (mean age 62.1 ± 10.2 years, 47.2% male) from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) over a median of 12.1 years. The presence ...[more]