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Multicenter Study
Visual Estimate of Coronary Artery Calcium Predicts Cardiovascular Disease in COPD.
COPD is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), and coronary artery calcification (CAC) provides additional prognostic information. With increasing use of nongated CT scans in clinical practice, this study hypothesized that the visual Weston CAC score would perform as well as the Agatston score in predicting prevalent and incident coronary artery disease (CAD) and CVD in COPD. ⋯ A simple visual score for CAC performed well in predicting incident CAD in smokers with and without COPD.