Coronary Artery Calcium on Noncontrast Thoracic Computerized Tomography Scans and All-Cause Mortality

Circulation. 2018 Nov 20;138(21):2437-2438. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.036835.

¹ Department of Medicine, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Torrance, CA (M.J.B., C.L.-G., S.R., K.O., D.L., R.C.).
² Department of Epidemiology (S.M.L., L.M.D., E.A.R.), University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora.
³ Department of Biostatistics and Informatics (S.M.L., G.L.K., K.A.Y., J.E.H., L.M.D.), University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora.
⁴ Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY (R.G.B.).
⁵ Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery and Department of Radiology, Temple University Health System, Philadelphia, PA (R.S.).
⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham (H.N.).
⁷ Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO (E.A.R.).

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Keywords: calcium; cardiovascular disease; mortality; pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive; tomography, x-ray computed.

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