Thoracic aorta calcification but not inflammation is associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk: results of the CAMONA study - Blomberg, Björn A.; de Jong, Pim A.; Thomassen, Anders; Lam, Marnix G. E.; Vach, Werner; Olsen, Michael H.; Mali, Willem P. T. M.; Narula, Jagat; Alavi, Abass; Høilund-Carlsen, Poul F. (European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 2017)
Keywords: Adult; Aged; Aorta, Thoracic - diagnostic imaging; Aortitis - diagnostic imaging; Aortitis - epidemiology; Atherosclerosis; Atherosclerosis - diagnostic imaging; Atherosclerosis - epidemiology; Cardiology; Cardiovascular disease; Causality; Comorbidity; Denmark - epidemiology; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; Humans; Imaging; Inflammation; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Nuclear Medicine; Oncology; Original; Original Article; Orthopedics; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography - methods; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography - statistics & numerical data; Prevalence; Radiology; Radiopharmaceuticals; Reproducibility of Results; Risk Assessment - methods; Sensitivity and Specificity; Sodium Fluoride; Survival Rate; Vascular Calcification - diagnostic imaging; Vascular Calcification - epidemiology; Young Adult; F; PET/CT; Atherosclerosis; Vascular calcification; F]Fluorodeoxyglucose; F]Sodium fluoride (Na; Arterial inflammation; [; F-FDG; [18F]Sodium fluoride (Na18F); [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG)