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Article: Coronary artery calcium levels linked to coronary heart disease.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- October 26, 2003
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2003 OCT 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have published a comparison of coronary artery calcium detected by electron bean tomography in patients with to those without symptomatic coronary heart disease in a recent issue of the American Journal of Cardiology.
"Although the presence of coronary artery calcium (CAC) has been associated with the prevalence and incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD), it is unclear if this association has a threshold or a continuous relation. The aim of this research was to explore the relation between CAC, as detected by electron beam tomography (EBT), and CHD in a cross-sectional study of women and men who presented ...
<0.001 for each); the prevalence of detectable CAC increased with age and was higher in men than in women," reported Cheng and colleagues. "There was an increased risk for prevalent CHD at all levels of CAC>