American Journal of Cardiology
Volume 103, Issue 11 , Pages 1562-1567, 1 June 2009

Relationship of Thoracic Aortic Calcium to Coronary Calcium and Its Progression (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis [MESA])

  • Juan J. Rivera, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Tel: 410-502-0469; fax: 410-614-9990
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  • Khurram Nasir, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
    • Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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  • Ronit Katz, DPhil

      Affiliations

    • Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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  • Junichiro Takasu, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California
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  • Matthew Allison, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family and Preventative Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California
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  • Nathan D. Wong, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
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  • R. Graham Barr, MD, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, New York
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  • Jeffrey J. Carr, MD, MSCE

      Affiliations

    • Division of Radiological Sciences, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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  • Roger S. Blumenthal, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Matthew J. Budoff, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California

Received 20 November 2008; received in revised form 5 February 2009; accepted 5 February 2009. published online 03 April 2009.

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 This research was supported by Grants R01-HL-63963-01A1 and R01-HL-071739-03 and Contracts N01-HC-95159 through N01-HC-95165 and N01-HC-95169 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Nasir is supported by Grant 1T32 HL076136-02 from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

PII: S0002-9149(09)00538-4

doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.02.004

American Journal of Cardiology
Volume 103, Issue 11 , Pages 1562-1567, 1 June 2009

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