Abdominal Aortic Calcium, Coronary Artery Calcium, and Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

• Published in: Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology Vol. 34; no. 7; pp. 1574 - 1579
• Main Authors: Criqui, Michael H., Denenberg, Julie O., McClelland, Robyn L., Allison, Matthew A., Ix, Joachim H., Guerci, Alan, Cohoon, Kevin P., Srikanthan, Preethi, Watson, Karol E., Wong, Nathan D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Heart Association, Inc 01.07.2014
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Aorta, Abdominal - chemistry; Aorta, Abdominal - diagnostic imaging; Aortic Diseases - diagnosis; Aortic Diseases - ethnology; Aortic Diseases - mortality; Aortography - methods; Calcium - analysis; Coronary Angiography - methods; Coronary Artery Disease - diagnosis; Coronary Artery Disease - ethnology; Coronary Artery Disease - metabolism; Coronary Artery Disease - mortality; Coronary Vessels - chemistry; Coronary Vessels - diagnostic imaging; Female; Humans; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Predictive Value of Tests; Prognosis; Proportional Hazards Models; Prospective Studies; Risk Factors; Time Factors; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; United States - epidemiology; Vascular Calcification - diagnosis; Vascular Calcification - ethnology; Vascular Calcification - mortality; aortic diseases; epidemiology; calcium; cardiovascular diseases; diagnostic imaging

OBJECTIVE—To evaluate the predictive value of abdominal aortic calcium (AAC) for incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) independent of coronary artery calcium (CAC). APPROACH AND RESULTS—We evaluated the association of AAC with CVD in 1974 men and women aged 45 to 84 years randomly selected from the...