Coronary artery calcium and thoracic aortic calcification on non–ECG–gated chest CT in a large community-based cohort of Chinese men and women
Sang Zhou, Chengrong Zheng, Weiwei Li, Zhitao Jin · 2026
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Sang Zhou, Chengrong Zheng, Weiwei Li, and Zhitao Jin chart, in a 2026 study, at what ages calcium appears in the heart arteries and chest aorta of Chinese adults. Routine chest scans taken for other reasons often catch these deposits, and guidelines tie statin advice to a person's calcium rank for their age. Local age and sex thresholds were missing. The team read over forty-two thousand community participants' scans.
Heart artery calcium reached a quarter of men at forty-eight and of women at fifty-eight. Half and three-quarter marks followed the same ten-year gap. Aortic calcium rose steeply with age in both sexes. Heart-only deposits were commoner in men, aorta-only in women, and combined deposits dominated with age. The authors give exact ages when a positive finding should prompt statin talks, and ages below which a clean scan spells a good outlook.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sang Zhou, Chengrong Zheng, Weiwei Li, Zhitao Jin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |