Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring in Current Clinical Practice: How to Define Its Value?

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Published in Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med on September 25, 2017

Authors

Sina Kianoush1, Mohammadhassan Mirbolouk1, Raghavendra Charan Makam1, Khurram Nasir1,2, Michael J Blaha3,4

Author Affiliations

1: Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Blalock building Suit 501, 600 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
2: Center for Healthcare Advancement and Outcomes, Baptist Health South Florida, 1500 San Remo Ave, Suite 340, Coral Gables, FL, 33139, USA.
3: Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Blalock building Suit 501, 600 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA. mblaha1@jhmi.edu.
4: Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center Preventive Cardiology Center, Blalock 524C, 600 North Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA. mblaha1@jhmi.edu.

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