Carotid FDG Uptake Improves Prediction of Future Cardiovascular Events in Asymptomatic Individuals | Zendy

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Carotid FDG Uptake Improves Prediction of Future Cardiovascular Events in Asymptomatic Individuals

Author(s) -

Seung Hwan Moon,

Young Seok Cho,

Tae Soo Noh,

Joon Young Choi,

ByungTae Kim,

Kyung-Han Lee

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

jacc. cardiovascular imaging

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.79

H-Index - 120

eISSN - 1936-878X

pISSN - 1876-7591

DOI - 10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.06.002

Subject(s) - asymptomatic , hazard ratio , medicine , confidence interval , receiver operating characteristic , framingham risk score , cardiology , proportional hazards model , area under the curve , positron emission tomography , nuclear medicine , radiology , disease

This study sought to investigate the role of carotid fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) uptake as an independent prognostic indicator and to determine whether its addition improves risk prediction beyond the Framingham risk score (FRS) and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT).

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