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Relationship Between Coronary Artery Calcium and Atherosclerosis Progression Among Patients With Suspected Coronary Artery Disease
- Title
- Relationship Between Coronary Artery Calcium and Atherosclerosis Progression Among Patients With Suspected Coronary Artery Disease
- Authors
- Hollenberg, Emma J.; Lin, Fay; Blaha, Michael J.; Budoff, Matthew J.; van den Hoogen, Inge J.; Gianni, Umberto; Lu, Yao; Bax, A. Maxim; van Rosendael, Alexander R.; Tantawy, Sara W.; Andreini, Daniele; Cademartiri, Filippo; Chinnaiyan, Kavitha; Choi, Jung Hyun; Conte, Edoardo; Goncalves, Pedro de Araujo; Hadamitzky, Martin; Maffei, Erica; Pontone, Gianluca; Shin, Sanghoon; Kim, Yong-Jin; Lee, Byoung Kwon; Chun, Eun Ju; Sung, Ji Min; Gimelli, Alessia; Lee, Sang-Eun; Bax, Jeroen J.; Berman, Daniel S.; Sellers, Stephanie L.; Leipsic, Jonathon A.; Blankstein, Ron; Narula, Jagat; Chang, Hyuk-Jae; Shaw, Leslee J.
- Ewha Authors
- 신상훈
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 신상훈
- Issue Date
- 2022
- Journal Title
- JACC-CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING
- ISSN
- 1936-878X
1876-7591
- Citation
- JACC-CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1063 - 1074
- Keywords
- atherosclerotic plaque; coronary artery calcium; coronary computed tomographic angiography; plaque progression
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- BACKGROUND Among symptomatic patients, it remains unclear whether a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score alone is sufficient or misses a sizeable burden and progressive risk associated with obstructive and nonobstructive atherosclerotic plaque. OBJECTIVES Among patients with low to high CAC scores, our aims were to quantify co-occurring obstructive and nonobstructive noncalcified plaque and serial progression of atherosclerotic plaque volume. METHODS A total of 698 symptomatic patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) underwent serial coronary computed tomographic angiography (CTA) performed 3.5 to 4.0 years apart. Atherosclerotic plaque was quantified, including by compositional subgroups. Obstructive CAD was defined as >= 50% stenosis. Multivariate linear regression models were used to measure atherosclerotic plaque progression by CAC scores. Cox proportional hazard models estimated CAD event risk (median of 10.7 years of follow-up). RESULTS Across baseline CAC scores from 0 to >= 400, total plaque volume ranged from 30.4 to 522.4 mm(3) (P < 0.001) and the prevalence of obstructive CAD increased from 1.4% to 49.1% (P < 0.001). Of those with a 0 CAC score, 97.9% of total plaque was noncalcified. Among patients with baseline CAC <100, nonobstructive CAD was prevalent (40% and 89% in CAC scores of 0 and 1-99), with plaque largely being noncalcified. On the follow-up coronary CTA, volumetric plaque growth (P < 0.001) and the development of new or worsening stenosis (P < 0.001) occurred more among patients with baseline CAC >= 100. Progression varied compositionally by baseline CAC scores. Patients with no CAC had disproportionate growth in noncalcified plaque, and for every 1 mm(3) increase in calcified plaque, there was a 5.5 mm(3) increase in noncalcified plaque volume. By comparison, patients with CAC scores of >= 400 exhibited disproportionate growth in calcified plaque with a volumetric increase 15.7-fold that of noncalcified plaque. There was a graded increase in CAD event risk by the CAC with rates from 3.3% for no CAC to 21.9% for CAC >= 400 (P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS CAC imperfectly characterizes atherosclerotic disease burden, but its subgroups exhibit pathogenic patterns of early to advanced disease progression and stratify long-term prognostic risk. (C) 2022 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation.
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jcmg.2021.12.015
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- 의료원 > 의료원 > Journal papers
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