title: Coronary artery calcium screening: current status and recommendations from the European Society of Cardiac Radiology and North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging.
abstract: Current guidelines and literature on screening for coronary artery calcium for cardiac risk assessment are reviewed for both general and special populations. It is shown that for both general and special populations a zero score excludes most clinically relevant coronary artery disease. The importance of standardization of coronary artery calcium measurements by multi-detector CT is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. M.Oudkerk@rad.umcg.nl
authors.forename: Matthijs
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oudkerk
authors.forename: Arthur E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Stillman
authors.forename: Sandra S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Halliburton
authors.forename: Willi A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Kalender
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Möhlenkamp
authors.forename: Cynthia H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: McCollough
authors.forename: Rozemarijn
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vliegenthart
authors.forename: Leslee J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Stanford
authors.forename: Allen J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Peter M A
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: van Ooijen
authors.forename: Lewis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wexler
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Raggi
mesh_terms: D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed