Gender Differences in Coronary Artery Diameter Are Not Related to Body Habitus or Left Ventricular Mass
| Autor: | Song Shou Mao, Ferdinand Flores, Andy Chen, Yanlin Gao, Amit K. Hiteshi, Matthew J. Budoff, Dong Li |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Percutaneous coronary intervention General Medicine Left ventricular mass Coronary arteries medicine.anatomical_structure Internal medicine Conventional PCI medicine Cardiology Circumflex Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Body mass index Artery Computed tomography angiography |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Cardiology. 37:605-609 |
| ISSN: | 0160-9289 |
| Popis: | Background Smaller coronary artery diameter portends worse outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The suggestion that women have smaller coronary artery diameters than men has not been validated by a large-scale study. Hypothesis We sought to confirm a gender difference with respect to coronary artery diameter, even after accounting for body habitus and left ventricular mass (LVM). Methods From 4200 subjects evaluated for cardiovascular disease by computed tomography angiography, we selected 710 subjects (383 males, 327 females) with coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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