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Coronary Calcium Scoring Refines Heart-Risk Benchmarks and Statin Decisions

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Source: Medscape
Coronary Calcium Scoring Refines Heart-Risk Benchmarks and Statin Decisions
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Adding coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring to PREVENT-ASCVD risk estimates helped reclassify adults into more accurate risk categories and guide statin decisions in a US cohort; CAC=0 was linked to lower observed ASCVD risk and CAC>0 to higher risk, especially when statin eligibility was uncertain, with CAC-enhanced risk stratification improving net reclassification across risk tiers.

Topics:healthcardiology#ascvd-risk#cardiac-ct#cardiology#coronary-artery-calcium#preventive-cardiology#statins
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