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An important finding of our study was the association of baseline CACS with the progression of CACS.
The prevalence of abdominal obesity increased from 5,738 (32%) in subjects with CACS = 0 to 1,336 (47.7%) in subjects with 0 < CACS ≤ 100 and 794 (60%) in subjects with CACS >100.
These studies showed that an excellent survival was achieved in patients with a zero CACS, but increased cardiac events were closely associated with higher CACS (<400).
Combination of FRS with CACS or other surrogate vascular markers did not further improve the prognostic values over CACS alone.
Increased CACS (>100) was also associated with an increased frequency of multivessel disease and patients with CACS > 1000 had a 100% incidence of CAD.
CAC was assessed by multislice spiral computed tomography (MSCT) and recorded as the Agatston score (CaCS).
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The predictive value of CACS was assessed using binary cutoff values (CACS ≤100, CACS >100, CACS >400).
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The presence of CAC was defined as CACS >0.
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