Keywords:
Cardiac, Cardiovascular system, CT, CAD, Calcifications / Calculi
Authors:
A. J. Vázquez Mézquita, R. Choza Chenhalls, M. A. Teliz Meneses, N. B. Guzman Martinez, M. J. Acosta Falomir, A. P. Chischistz Condey; Mexico City/MX
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-0060
Results
By segmenting our sample in male and female patients,
the correlation between Agatston calcium score and ACC/AHA ASCVD algorithm was mild with an R-value of 0.36 (p-value < 0.001) for the female patients,
whereas the male population had an R-value of 0.39 (p-value< 0.001)
The correlation between Agatston calcium score and the Framingham score is mild for both female and male patients with an R-value of 0.37 (p-value<0.00) and 0.35 (p-value <0.00),
respectively.
Body mass index has a mild correlation with the Agatston calcium score with an R-value of 0.2 (p-value<0.01) for the female patients,
whereas the male patients had a non-statistically significant R- value of 0.04 (p-value of 0.5).
The correlation between Agatston calcium score and abdominal circumference is very low and non-statistically significant for the male population with an R-value of 0.017 (p-value of 0.8),
whereas in the female population there was a mild correlation with an R-value of 0.32 (p<0.01),
which is statistically significant.
The Agatston calcium score has a mild positive correlation with age by having an R-value of 0.41 for the female patients (p-value< 0.001),
meanwhile the Agatston calcium score also had a mild positive correlation with age with an R-value of 0.44 (p-value< 0.001) in the male patient group.
The ANOVA test showed a significant difference between the calcium score variances determined by different groups of age (F-value=8.254; p<0.001),
nonetheless age only predicted 8% determined by Eta squared (p<0.01).