Coronary Calcium Scoring Refines Heart-Risk Benchmarks and Statin Decisions
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.