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African Americans and Caucasians have a similar prevalence of coronary calcium in the Dallas Heart Study

Tulika Jain, MD^*, Ronald Peshock, MD^*, Darren K. McGuire, MD, MHSc^*, DuWayne Willett, MD^*, Zhoazia Yu, MS, Gloria L. Vega, PhD^*, Rudy Guerra, PhD, Helen H. Hobbs, MD^*,, Scott M. Grundy, MD, PhD^*,* the Dallas Heart Study Investigators

^* Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center and the Department of Internal Medicine, Dallas, TexasUSA
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TexasUSA
Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, TexasUSA

View larger version (29K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 (A) The relationship between coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores from duplicate electron beam computed tomography scans. No subjects with a CAC score >10 Agatston U had a second CAC score = 0 Agatston U. (B) Concordance of calcium classification (i.e., both scores being above or below a given threshold CAC score) for subjects in different body mass index (BMI) categories.