1. Diabetes and male sex are key risk factor correlates of the extent of coronary artery calcification: A Euro-CCAD study
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Nicoll, Rachel, Zhao, Ying, Wiklund, Urban, Diederichsen, Axel, Mickley, Hans, Ovrehus, Kristian, Zamorano, Jose, Gueret, Pascal, Schmermund, Axel, Maffei, Erica, Cademartiri, Filippo, Budoff, Matt, and Henein, Michael
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Biomedical and Clinical Sciences ,Clinical Sciences ,Heart Disease - Coronary Heart Disease ,Diabetes ,Cardiovascular ,Heart Disease ,Prevention ,Adult ,Age Factors ,Aged ,Cohort Studies ,Computed Tomography Angiography ,Coronary Artery Disease ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Diabetic Angiopathies ,Europe ,Female ,Hospitals ,Special ,Humans ,Male ,Middle Aged ,Prevalence ,Registries ,Retrospective Studies ,Risk Factors ,Severity of Illness Index ,Sex Factors ,United States ,Vascular Calcification ,Coronary calcification extent ,Risk factors ,Gender ,Hypertension ,Endocrinology & Metabolism ,Clinical sciences - Abstract
Background and aimsAlthough much has been written about the conventional cardiovascular risk factor correlates of the extent of coronary artery calcification (CAC), few studies have been carried out on symptomatic patients. This paper assesses the potential ability of risk factors to associate with an increasing CAC score.MethodsFrom the European Calcific Coronary Artery Disease (Euro-CCAD) cohort, we retrospectively investigated 6309 symptomatic patients, 62% male, from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the USA. All had conventional cardiovascular risk factor assessment and CT scanning for CAC scoring.ResultsAmong all patients, male sex (OR = 4.85, p
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- 2017