Gender and age effects on risk factor-based prediction of coronary artery calcium in symptomatic patients: A Euro-CCAD study
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- 作者：R. Nicoll
- 关键词：Coronary calcification ; Age ; Gender ; Risk factors
- 刊名：Atherosclerosis
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：September 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：252
- 期：Complete
- 页码：32-39
- 全文大小：385 K
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- <p id="p0010">Coronary artery calcification (CAC) prevalence among females lagged males by around 10 years.p>
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- <p id="p0015">Age, dyslipidaemia, hypertension, diabetes and smoking were independently predictive of CAC presence in both genders.p>
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- <p id="p0020">The most important predictors were dyslipidaemia and diabetes in males and diabetes and smoking in females.p>
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- <p id="p0025">There was no difference in the predictive ability of these risk factors between genders in patients aged ≤70 years.p>
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- <p id="p0030">In males aged >70 only dyslipidaemia predicted CAC presence, while in females only smoking and diabetes were predictive.p>