Diagnostic Value of Coronary Artery Calcium Score for Cardiovascular Disease in African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study
Jung Hye Sung, Joseph Yeboah, Jae Eun Lee, Che L. Smith, James G. Terry, Mario Sims, Tandaw Samdarshi, Solomon Musani, Ervin Fox, Yaorong Ge, James G. Wilson, Herman A. Taylor & Jeffery Carr · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2015
Background: The role of coronary artery calcium (CAC) as a screening tool for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in African Americans (AAs) is unclear. We compared the diagnostic accuracy for CVD prevalence using the CAC score and the Framingham Risk Score (FRS) in an adult popula...
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10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21449