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Mammograms and breast arterial calcifications: looking beyond breast cancer: a preliminary report
BACKGROUND: To find out the prevalence, clinical and biochemical correlates of Breast Artery Calcification (BAC) in the Nigerian women. FINDINGS: This is a cross sectional study involving 54 consecutive adult female subjects sent to the Radiology Department of the Lagos State University Teaching Hos...
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2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3135549/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21689453 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-4-207 |
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author | Akinola, Rachael A Ogbera, Okeoghene A Onakoya, Josephine AA Enabulele, Chris E Fadeyibi, Idowu O |
author_facet | Akinola, Rachael A Ogbera, Okeoghene A Onakoya, Josephine AA Enabulele, Chris E Fadeyibi, Idowu O |
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description | BACKGROUND: To find out the prevalence, clinical and biochemical correlates of Breast Artery Calcification (BAC) in the Nigerian women. FINDINGS: This is a cross sectional study involving 54 consecutive adult female subjects sent to the Radiology Department of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja-Lagos, Nigeria for screening and diagnostic mammography. The study was carried out for a period of five months. The prevalence of BAC was 20%. Ageing was found to be related to BAC. Cardiovascular risk factors including diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension, obesity, alcohol ingestion, use of oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy, were not significantly related to the presence of BAC in this study. CONCLUSION: This study showed that though the presence of BAC in a mammogram is related to age, it may not predict or serve as a significant marker for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in women in our environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-31355492011-07-14 Mammograms and breast arterial calcifications: looking beyond breast cancer: a preliminary report Akinola, Rachael A Ogbera, Okeoghene A Onakoya, Josephine AA Enabulele, Chris E Fadeyibi, Idowu O BMC Res Notes Short Report BACKGROUND: To find out the prevalence, clinical and biochemical correlates of Breast Artery Calcification (BAC) in the Nigerian women. FINDINGS: This is a cross sectional study involving 54 consecutive adult female subjects sent to the Radiology Department of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja-Lagos, Nigeria for screening and diagnostic mammography. The study was carried out for a period of five months. The prevalence of BAC was 20%. Ageing was found to be related to BAC. Cardiovascular risk factors including diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension, obesity, alcohol ingestion, use of oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy, were not significantly related to the presence of BAC in this study. CONCLUSION: This study showed that though the presence of BAC in a mammogram is related to age, it may not predict or serve as a significant marker for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in women in our environment. BioMed Central 2011-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3135549/ /pubmed/21689453 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-4-207 Text en Copyright ©2011 Akinola et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Short Report Akinola, Rachael A Ogbera, Okeoghene A Onakoya, Josephine AA Enabulele, Chris E Fadeyibi, Idowu O Mammograms and breast arterial calcifications: looking beyond breast cancer: a preliminary report |
title | Mammograms and breast arterial calcifications: looking beyond breast cancer: a preliminary report |
title_full | Mammograms and breast arterial calcifications: looking beyond breast cancer: a preliminary report |
title_fullStr | Mammograms and breast arterial calcifications: looking beyond breast cancer: a preliminary report |
title_full_unstemmed | Mammograms and breast arterial calcifications: looking beyond breast cancer: a preliminary report |
title_short | Mammograms and breast arterial calcifications: looking beyond breast cancer: a preliminary report |
title_sort | mammograms and breast arterial calcifications: looking beyond breast cancer: a preliminary report |
topic | Short Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3135549/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21689453 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-4-207 |
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