Coronary artery calcium: The canary in the coal mine

Atherosclerosis. 2024 May:392:117499. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2024.117499. Epub 2024 Mar 8.

Authors

Alexander C Razavi¹, Paolo Raggi², Seamus P Whelton³

Affiliations

¹ Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
² Department of Medicine and Division of Cardiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
³ Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: seamus.whelton@jhmi.edu.

PMID: 38508916
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2024.117499

No abstract available

Keywords: Aging; Coronary artery calcium; Risk stratification.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Calcium / metabolism
Coronary Angiography
Coronary Artery Disease* / diagnostic imaging
Coronary Artery Disease* / metabolism
Coronary Vessels* / diagnostic imaging
Coronary Vessels* / metabolism
Coronary Vessels* / pathology
Humans
Vascular Calcification / diagnostic imaging

Substances

Calcium