Ordinal Scoring of Coronary Artery Calcifications on Low-Dose CT Scans of the Chest is Predictive of Death from Cardiovascular Disease - Shemesh, Joseph; Henschke, Claudia I.; Shaham, Dorith; Yip, Rowena; Farooqi, Ali O.; Cham, Matthew D.; McCauley, Dorothy I.; Chen, Mildred; Smith, James P.; Libby, Daniel M.; Pasmantier, Mark W.; Yankelevitz, David F. (Radiology, 2010)
Keywords: Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Biological and medical sciences; Calcinosis - diagnostic imaging; Calcinosis - mortality; Cardiology. Vascular system; Cardiovascular Diseases - mortality; Chi-Square Distribution; Coronary Artery Disease - diagnostic imaging; Coronary Artery Disease - mortality; Coronary heart disease; Female; Heart; Humans; Logistic Models; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Predictive Value of Tests; Prognosis; Proportional Hazards Models; Risk Factors; Smoking - adverse effects; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Human; Prognosis; Radiodiagnosis; Evaluation scale; Low dose; Mortality; Coronary artery; Cardiovascular disease; Thorax; Calcification; Medical imagery; Computerized axial tomography; Predictive factor