CAC beats Framingham for "substantial" atherosclerosis
APRIL 26, 2010 || From Medscape Medical News—a professional news service of WebMD |
New Haven, CT - Almost two-thirds of women and one-quarter of men with substantial atherosclerosis will be missed if subjects are excluded from further screening because they are in the Framinghamlow-risk category, according to a report published in the May 2010 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology. [1]
"Many coronary events occur in patients without warning, and the need for an effective screening program has been recognized for many years. Historically, the Framingham risk score has been the dominant method of risk stratification in the US," write study coauthors Drs Kevin M Johnson (Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT) and David A Dowe (Atlantic Medical Imaging, Galloway, NJ)./.../
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