Budoff et al. set out to investigate the efficacy of Coronary Calcification assessment as an independent risk factor in a large registry of 25,253 asymptomatic patients. They found that Coronary Calcification assessment ‘..was an independent predictor of mortality in a multivariable model controlling for age, gender, ethnicity, and cardiac risk factors’ and ‘the addition of Coronary Calcification assessment, to traditional risk factors, increased the concordance index significantly’ In summary, this large observational study shows that Coronary Calcification assessment is an independent estimator of all-cause mortality.
AUTHOR
Budoff, M.J, Shaw, L.J., Liu, S.T., Weinstein, S.R., Mosler, T.P., Tseng, P.H., Flores, F.R., Callister, T.Q., Raggi, P., Berman, D.S. (2007)
REFERENCE
J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 49(18):1860-70.
Budoff, M.J, Shaw, L.J., Liu, S.T., Weinstein, S.R., Mosler, T.P., Tseng, P.H., Flores, F.R., Callister, T.Q., Raggi, P., Berman, D.S. (2007)
REFERENCE
J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 49(18):1860-70.