Serial Coronary Artery Calcium Progression and Risk of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in an Asian Cohort
Jin-Man He, Yu-Chen Wang, Kuan-Cheng Chang · 2026
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Calcium that keeps building in coronary arteries signals growing danger, Jin-Man He and colleagues show in a 2026 Taiwanese cohort study. Nearly eighteen hundred people who had two heart CT calcium scans between 2006 and 2021 were followed from the second scan onward. Progression meant the calcium score climbing at least twenty Agatston units per year, a threshold about one in five participants crossed.
Progressors faced roughly double the risk of a major cardiovascular event, with risk climbing further at faster annual increases. The link held across subgroups and statistical approaches, including weighted and imputed analyses. Serial scanning, the authors suggest, could sharpen long-term risk estimates, especially in patients already taking statins.
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| CREATOR | Jin-Man He, Yu-Chen Wang, Kuan-Cheng Chang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37742 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |