CORONARY CALCIUM SCORE VERSUS CHRONOLOGICAL AGE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RISK PREDICTION IN THE ELDERLY: THE FRAMINGHAM OFFSPRING STUDY, THE MULTI-ETHNIC STUDY OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS, AND THE CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH STUDY

Yuichiro Yano,Hongyan Ning,Christopher J O’Donnell,Lewis Kuller,Oscar Franco,Raimund Erbel,Ralph D’Agostino,Khurram Nasir,Anne Newman,Ron Blankstein,Maryam Kavousi,Stefan Möhlenkamp,Nils Lehmann,Amir-Abbas Mahabadi,Udo Hoffmann,Joseph Massaro,Joao Lima,Kiang Liu,Donald M. Lloyd-Jones,Philip Greenland

CORONARY CALCIUM SCORE VERSUS CHRONOLOGICAL AGE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RISK PREDICTION IN THE ELDERLY: THE FRAMINGHAM OFFSPRING STUDY, THE MULTI-ETHNIC STUDY OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS, AND THE CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH STUDY

2016

The 2013 ACC-AHA cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention guidelines pose a challenge concerning how to select the high-risk elderly for statin drugs. An alternative marker besides chronological age to better discriminate between lower and higher CVD risk is needed for the elderly. Using meta-

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Ethnic group
Statin
Offspring
Framingham Risk Score
Disease
Coronary Calcium Score
Framingham Heart Study
Internal medicine
Diabetes mellitus
Cardiology
Medicine

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