Visual Estimate of Coronary Artery Calcium Predicts Cardiovascular Disease in COPD.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COPD is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), and coronary artery calcification (CAC) provides additional prognostic information. With increasing use of nongated CT scans in clinical practice, this study hypothesized that the visual Weston CAC score would perform as well as the Agatston score in predicting prevalent and incident coronary artery disease (CAD) and CVD in COPD.

Methods

CAC was measured by using Agatston and Weston scores on baseline CT scans in 1,875 current and former smokers enrolled in the Genetic Epidemiology of COPD (COPDGene) study. Baseline cardiovascular disease and incident cardiac events on longitudinal follow-up were recorded. Accuracy of the CAC scores was measured by using receiver-operating characteristic analysis, and Cox propo

SUBMITTER: Bhatt SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6130328 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature