The Addition of Vascular Calcification Scores to Traditional Risk Factors Improves Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

BACKGROUND: Although a variety of non-invasive methods for measuring cardiovascular (CV) risk (such as carotid intima media thickness, pulse wave velocity (PWV), coronary artery and aortic calcification scores (measured either by CT scan or X-ray) and the ankle brachial index (ABI)) have been evalua...

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Autores principales: Liabeuf, Sophie, Desjardins, Lucie, Diouf, Momar, Temmar, Mohamed, Renard, Cédric, Choukroun, Gabriel, Massy, Ziad A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504701/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26181592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131707

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504701/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26181592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131707

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