1. The correlation of SYNTAX score by coronary angiography with breast arterial calcification by digital mammography
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D. Ružičić, Biljana Beleslin, Dragan Hrnčić, Ana Đorđević-Dikić, Mira Vukovic, M. Ružičić, Srđan Aleksandrić, S. Đorđević, and Milan Dobric
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Digital mammography ,medicine.medical_treatment ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Coronary Angiography ,Severity of Illness Index ,Coronary artery disease ,Correlation ,Breast Diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Predictive Value of Tests ,Internal medicine ,Severity of illness ,medicine ,Humans ,Mammography ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Breast ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Vascular Calcification ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Percutaneous coronary intervention ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,humanities ,Cardiac surgery ,Predictive value of tests ,Cardiology ,Female ,business - Abstract
To evaluate the hypothesis that breast arterial calcification (BAC) may predict coronary artery disease (CAD) severity.The study comprised 102 women45 years (mean age 62±8 years) referred for digital mammography after coronary angiography. BAC was assessed using the Likert scale and CAD severity was assessed using the SYNTAX (SYNergy between percutaneous coronary intervention with TAXus and cardiac surgery trial) score.In comparison to the low SYNTAX score group (≤22) patients with a intermediate-to-high SYNTAX score (22) were older (p=0.001), they more often had hypercholesterolaemia (p0.001), diabetes (p=0.021), and a history of smoking (p=0.048). They also had a statistically higher level of fasting blood glucose (p0.001), glycated haemoglobin (HbA1C; p0.001), triglycerides (p=0.002), fibrinogen (p=0.001), whereas high-density lipoprotein (HDLc) was lower than in the group with a SYNTAX score ≤22 (p=0.005). BAC was significantly higher in patients with a SYNTAX score22 (p0.001). At multivariate analysis, BAC (odds ratio [OR] 34.24, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 8.05-145.7, p0.001), hypercholesterolaemia (OR 22.65, 95% CI: 4.18-122.81, p0.001) and fibrinogen (OR 2.55, 95% CI: 1.28-5.07, p=0.008) were independent predictive factors for patients with intermediate-to-high SYNTAX score.In women45 years, there was a significant correlation between the severity of CAD as evaluated by the SYNTAX score and BAC as evaluated by the Likert scale. BAC, hypercholesterolaemia, and fibrinogen may be used as an additional diagnostic tool to predict the presence and severity of CAD.
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- 2018