Risk Stratification for Cardiovascular Disease in Women in the Primary Care Setting.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-10-2015
Publication Title
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume
28
Issue
10
First page number:
1232
Last page number:
9
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Traditional risk assessment tools classify the majority of middle-aged women at low risk despite cardiovascular (CV) disease's affecting >50% of women and remaining the leading cause of death. Ultrasound-determined carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) and/or computed tomographic coronary artery calcium score (CACS) quantify subclinical atherosclerosis and add incremental prognostic value. The aim of this study was to assess the utility of CIMT and CACS to detect subclinical atherosclerosis in younger women.
Keywords
Calcium score; Carotid ultrasound; Risk; Women
Repository Citation
Roy, R. R.,
Hurst, R. T.,
Lester, S. J.,
Kendall, C.,
Baxter, C.,
Wu, Q.,
Borovansky, J.,
Files, J.,
Panse, P.,
Wilansky, S.
(2015).
Risk Stratification for Cardiovascular Disease in Women in the Primary Care Setting..
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography, 28(10),
1232-9.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2015.06.015