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SUBMITTER: Obisesan OH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8113160 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Obisesan Olufunmilayo H OH Osei Albert D AD Berman Daniel D Dardari Zeina A ZA Uddin S M Iftekhar SMI Dzaye Omar O Orimoloye Olusola A OA Budoff Matthew J MJ Miedema Michael D MD Rumberger John J Mirbolouk Mohammadhassan M Boakye Ellen E Johansen Michelle C MC Rozanski Alan A Shaw Leslee J LJ Han Donghee D Nasir Khurram K Blaha Michael J MJ
The American journal of cardiology 20210303
Thoracic aortic calcium(TAC) is an important marker of extracoronary atherosclerosis with established predictive value for all-cause mortality. We sought to explore the predictive value of TAC for stroke mortality, independent of the more established coronary artery calcium (CAC) score. The CAC Consortium is a retrospectively assembled database of 66,636 patients aged ≥18 years with no previous history of cardiovascular disease, baseline CAC scans for risk stratification, and follow-up for 12 ± ...[more]