Coronary Artery Calcium Outperforms Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness as a Noninvasive Index of Prevalent Coronary Artery Stenosis
- 1 August 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
- Vol. 25 (8), 1723-1728
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.atv.0000173418.42264.19
Abstract
Objective— Increased carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) and increased coronary artery calcium (CAC) are noninvasive surrogate indices of prevalent coronary artery disease (CAD). We compared CAC to IMT for noninvasive detection of prevalent CAD in participants whose coronary status was identified by coronary angiography. Methods and Results— Male and female CAD patients (≥50% stenosis in one or more coronary artery, n=79) and controls (no lumen irregularities, n=93) were identified using coronary angiography. Mean maximum carotid IMT was quantified using B-mode ultrasound and total CAC was measured using ECG-gated helical computed tomography (HCT). Carotid IMT was ≈20% higher in CAD cases compared with controls ( P P P =0.015). CAC scores that exceeded the median score of 92 were associated with 28-fold increase in likelihood of prevalent CAD ( P Conclusion— HCT-measured CAC compares favorably with carotid IMT measured by B-mode ultrasound as a noninvasive index of prevalent CAD.Keywords
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