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The Agatston Coronary Artery Calcium Score in Statin Users: Recent Insights from the CAC Consortium and Pathways Forward - American College of Cardiology
Background The coronary artery calcium (CAC) burden as reported with the Agatston score 1 is strongly associated with adverse cardiovascular disease (CVD) events. 2-6 CAC scoring using the Agatston method is an established guideline-endorsed adjunct to traditional risk factors for enhanced risk assessment to guide management in asymptomatic individuals.
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LYNN CRONIN4yrI have had quite a few patients bring discussions of this paper to me with a number of quite bad interpretations of the data and conclusions gleaned from social media. That is perhaps another topic for another time, but how are you discussing CAC score results with patients, both statin naive and statin users? I find it very disappointing that this very useful niche test (it's a large niche) is still uncovered by insurance.