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Zeroing In on Prevention: ARIC and the Future of Cardiovascular Risk | JACC Baran
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Professor Matsushita explains why studying people over 75 with zero coronary artery calcium reveals new insights into healthy aging.
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A close look at zero coronary calcium, traditional risk factors, and how risk may be measured over time.
It stays on zero coronary artery calcium and the question of how traditional cardiovascular risk factors should be read over time. The ERIC study gives the discussion its frame, but the larger point is less tidy: one scan does not settle the issue, and the way risk factors are…
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You want a grounded read on zero coronary calcium, the power of zero, and what it still leaves open.
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