Coronary Calcium

Assessing odds for subclinical ASCVD by midlife based on maternal inheritance of FH.

Compared with participants with regular sleep patterns, older adults with irregular sleep durations were more likely to have high coronary artery calcium burden and abnormal ankle-brachial index, researchers reported.

Researchers in France observed that maternal inheritance of familial hypercholesterolemia was associated with greater odds of having subclinical coronary atherosclerosis compared with paternal inheritance of the gene mutation.

Real-world data suggest intravascular lithotripsy appears to be safe with low complications rates during nearly 2 years of follow-up when used for complex calcified coronary lesions, researchers reported.

In symptomatic patients, coronary artery calcium score combined with cystatin C level can provide more accurate risk stratification for major adverse CV events and all-cause death than either measure alone, researchers reported.

In an observational study of participants from the MESA cohort, statin use was not associated with incident diabetes, researchers reported in The American Journal of Cardiology.

WASHINGTON — A higher coronary artery calcium burden may predict incident sudden cardiac death independent of other atherosclerotic CVD risk factors, particularly for primary prevention patients, researchers reported.

Although various studies have established the prognostic value of coronary artery calcium scoring for predicting atherosclerotic risk, some current models do not take coronary calcium into account, a speaker reported.

Researchers in Sweden reported that atherosclerosis was present in more than 40% of individuals aged 50 to 64 years with no known CHD.

Women who developed first-time gestational diabetes and returned to normal blood glucose levels after pregnancy may experience a twofold increased risk for developing atherosclerotic CVD, according to new data from the CARDIA study.