Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring

Among patients with stable chest pain referred for invasive coronary angiography, a low coronary artery calcium score was associated with low risk for heart attack and stroke, researchers reported in Radiology.

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Danish researchers reported that CT angiography-derived fractional flow reserve was significantly prognostic of all-cause death and acute MI in patients with stable angina, especially those with high coronary calcium scores.

Routine CT scans could serve as a useful tool to identify patients at high risk for atherosclerotic CVD when paired with a deep learning algorithm that calculated coronary artery calcium scores, researchers reported.

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Black patients who undergo coronary artery calcium scoring received less post-screening care and had more adverse CV events compared with white patients at a single center, a speaker reported.

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Data show CV risk discrimination improved when adding a coronary artery calcium score to a CHD prediction model based on traditional risk factors; however, there were no changes when adding a polygenic risk score.