Coronary Artery Calcium Score Improved Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction in Asymptomatic Patients

I Md Ady Wirawan (School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Udayana, Indonesia.)
Rodney Wu (Pacific Radiology Group, Wellington, New Zealand)
Malcolm Abernethy (Wakefield Heart Centre, Wakefield Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand)
Sarah Aldington (University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand)
Peter Larsen (University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand)

Journal of the Medical Sciences (Berkala Ilmu Kedokteran)
Vol 50, No 1 (2018): SUPPLEMENT

This study examined whether coronary artery calcium score (CACS) has a betteraccuracy than the cardiovascular risk prediction chart (CRPC), and evaluate thereclassification improvement of CACS if it isused as a screening tool compared withthe CRPC. CACS has a better accuracy than the CRPC and reclassified a considerableproportion (39%) of a symptomatic patient into correct cardiovascular risk categories.CACS should be assessed in asymptomatic people with5-year CVD risk score of5-10% and 10-15%.