ReviewClinical cardiology2017
Breast arterial calcification association with coronary artery calcium scoring and implications for cardiovascular risk assessment in women.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Breast arterial calcification on mammography and risk of coronary artery disease: a SCOT-HEART sub-study.Clinical radiology · 2019Trial
- Review of breast arterial calcifications for cardiovascular disease risk prediction.NPJ cardiovascular health · 2026Review
- Beyond the Coronaries: Utility of Extra-Coronary Calcification for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Women.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2026Review
- Automated assessment of breast arterial calcification: a new frontier in cardiovascular risk prediction.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
- The relation between breast artery calcification and subclinical left ventricular systolic dysfunction.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2025Article
- Incidental Finding of Coronary and Non-Coronary Artery Calcium: What Do Clinicians Need To Know?Current atherosclerosis reports · 2025Review
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- Breast Arterial Calcifications on Mammography: A Review of the Literature.Journal of breast imaging · 2025Review
- The impact of breast cancer radiation therapy exposure on the prevalence of breast arterial calcification.The British journal of radiology · 2024Article
- Does the absence of breast arterial calcification (BAC 0) rule out severe coronary artery disease? A computed tomography angiography study.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2024Article
- Assessing breast arterial calcification in mammograms and its implications for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk.Clinical imaging · 2024Article
- A Multi-Task Learning Approach for Segmentation of Breast Arterial Calcifications in Screening Mammograms.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2024Article
- Opportunistic screening at chest computed tomography: literature review of cardiovascular significance of incidental findings.Cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy · 2023Review
- Cardiac Interventions in Patients With Active, Advanced Solid and Hematologic Malignancies:JACC. CardioOncology · 2023Review
- Assessing the Stress Echocardiography in Women With Breast Arterial Calcification.Journal of family & reproductive health · 2021Article
- Convolutional Neural Networks for the Segmentation of Microcalcification in Mammography Imaging.Journal of healthcare engineering · 2019Article
- Breast Arterial Calcification: A Potential Surrogate Marker for Cardiovascular Disease.Journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2018Review
- Breast arterial calcification association with coronary artery calcium scoring and implications for cardiovascular risk assessment in women.Clinical cardiology · 2017Review
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Abstract
Breast arterial calcification (BAC) is a type of medial artery calcification that can be seen incidentally on mammography. Studies have suggested association of BAC with cardiovascular risk factors, coronary artery disease (CAD), and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Recently published studies have also suggested a modest correlation of BAC with coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring. Roughly 40 million mammograms are already performed annually in the United States with overlap in patients that undergo CAD screening via CAC scoring. Thus, identification of cardiovascular risk by demonstrating an association between BAC and CAC may enable an instrumental sex-specific methodology to identify asymptomatic women at risk for CAD. The purpose of this article is to review the current state of the literature for BAC and its association with CAC, to review contemporary breast cancer screening guidelines, and to discuss the clinical implications of these findings.
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