Is the coronary artery calcium score the first-line tool for investigating patients with severe hypercholesterolemia?

BACKGROUND: Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is known as a reliable tool for estimating risk of myocardial infarction, coronary death, all-cause mortality and is even used to evaluate suitable asymptomatic patients. We therefore aimed to evaluate whether CAC scoring can be applied in the algorithm for...

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Autores principales: Kutkienė, Sandra, Petrulionienė, Žaneta, Laucevičius, Aleksandras, Čerkauskienė, Rimantė, Kasiulevičius, Vytautas, Samuilis, Artūras, Augaitienė, Virginija, Gedminaitė, Aurelija, Bieliauskienė, Gintarė, Šaulytė-Mikulskienė, Akvilė, Staigytė, Justina, Petrulionytė, Emilija, Gargalskaitė, Urtė, Skiauterytė, Eglė, Matuzevičienė, Gabija, Kovaitė, Milda, Nedzelskienė, Irena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6612412/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31279347
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12944-019-1090-8

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