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Abdominal aortic calcification quantified by the Morphological Atherosclerotic Calcification Distribution (MACD) index is associated with features of the metabolic syndrome

BACKGROUND: Abdominal aortic calcifications (AAC) predict cardiovascular mortality. A new scoring model for AAC, the Morphological Atherosclerotic Calcification Distribution (MACD) index may contribute with additional information to the commonly used Aortic Calcification Severity (AC24) score, when...

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Autores principales: Barascuk, Natasha, Ganz, Melanie, Nielsen, Mads, Register, Thomas C, Rasmussen, Lars M, Karsdal, Morten A, Christiansen, Claus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3258192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22185588
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-11-75