South Asian Cardiovascular Risk
Dinesh K Kalra, Deepak Vedamurthy, Nisha Hosadurg, Abhinav Goyal, Milan Gupta, Neha Pagidipati, Leandro Slipczuk, Damini Dey, Anurag Mehta, Parag Joshi, Lohendran Baskaran, Nathan Wong, Salim S Virani · 2026
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Kalra and a dozen heart specialists reviewed in 2026 why South Asians face heart artery disease early and in high numbers, and how scans can catch it sooner. Standard risk scores often rate these patients too low. South Asians grow artery plaque sooner, carry more of it, and show more risky plaque traits, even when a calcium scan still reads zero or low.
Calcium scoring, a quick scan for hardened plaque, sorts risk in South Asians about as well as in other groups. For younger patients with no hard plaque yet, the authors back a fuller scan called coronary CTA for select high risk cases. That scan can show soft plaque and, with new computer tools, gauge plaque volume and the fat around the vessel. Such detail can trigger strong preventive therapy years before symptoms would.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Dinesh K Kalra, Deepak Vedamurthy, Nisha Hosadurg, Abhinav Goyal, Milan Gupta, Neha Pagidipati, Leandro Slipczuk, Damini Dey, Anurag Mehta, Parag Joshi, Lohendran Baskaran, Nathan Wong, Salim S Virani |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 73 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |