ArticleJournal of cardiovascular translational research2015
The atherosclerosis burden score (ABS): a convenient ultrasound-based score of peripheral atherosclerosis for coronary artery disease prediction.
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- Prevalence and Burden of Carotid and Femoral Atherosclerosis in Subjects Without Known Cardiovascular Disease in a Large Community Hospital in South-America.High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension · 2024Article
- Peripheral Artery Disease Ultrasound Assessment in Predicting the Severity of Coronary Artery Disease.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Liver Stiffness Is Associated with the Burden of Carotid and Systemic Atherosclerosis in an Unorganized Cohort of Patients 40-64 Years Old.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Elevated Serum Cystatin C and Decreased Cathepsin S/Cystatin C Ratio Are Associated with Severe Peripheral Arterial Disease and Polyvascular Involvement.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Femoral plaque burden by ultrasound is a better indicator of significant coronary artery disease over ankle brachial index.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2021Article
- The Role of Carotid and Femoral Plaque Burden in the Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease.Current cardiology reports · 2020Review
- Prevalence and Characteristics of Carotid Artery High-Risk Atherosclerotic Plaques in Chinese Patients With Cerebrovascular Symptoms: A Chinese Atherosclerosis Risk Evaluation II Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2017Observational
- Associations between Carotid Artery Plaque Score, Carotid Hemodynamics and Coronary Heart Disease.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2015Article
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Abstract
Ultrasonographic detection of subclinical atherosclerosis improves cardiovascular risk stratification, but uncertainty persists about the most discriminative method to apply. In this study, we found that the "atherosclerosis burden score (ABS)", a novel straightforward ultrasonographic score that sums the number of carotid and femoral arterial bifurcations with plaques, significantly outperformed common carotid intima-media thickness, carotid mean/maximal thickness, and carotid/femoral plaque scores for the detection of coronary artery disease (CAD) (receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve area under the curve (AUC) = 0.79; P = 0.027 to <0.001 with the other five US endpoints) in 203 patients undergoing coronary angiography. ABS was also more correlated with CAD extension (R = 0.55; P < 0.001). Furthermore, in a second group of 1128 patients without cardiovascular disease, ABS was weakly correlated with the European Society of Cardiology chart risk categories (R(2) = 0.21), indicating that ABS provided information beyond usual cardiovascular risk factor-based risk stratification. Pending prospective studies on hard cardiovascular endpoints, ABS appears as a promising tool in primary prevention.
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