Coronary calcium predicts heart disease risk in patients with chronic kidney disease
Friday, August 22, 2014 - 15:00
in Health & Medicine
Calcium build-up in the coronary artery walls was more useful for correctly predicting kidney disease patients' risk of heart disease than other measures of atherosclerosis, such as thickness of the carotid artery walls and narrowing of the arteries in the legs, a new study reports.