%0 Journal Article
%T A new Screening Tool for Detecting Early Atheroslerosis<br>
%A Charlie WShaeffer
%A Palm Spring CA
%A Thach Nguyen
%A <br>
%J 老年心脏病学杂志(英文版)
%D 2006
%I Science Press
%X In a study published in the current issue of the Journal of Geriatric Cardiology. Ang and co-investigators used the high-resolution 64-slice CT coronary angiography to detect coro-nary lesions in a group of patients with atypical angina.1 The clinical data of these patients were also used to calculate their risk according the Framingham and PROCAM scoring system. --1 As the cohort is composed with a majority of low risk pa-tients with atypical angina, only a small minority of the pa-tients were classified as having medium and high risk. The results showed that MDCT uncovered 18% either significant lesions (>50% stenosis) or calcifications (>400Agatston units) in the low risk patients and 33% in the medium and high risk subgroups.
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