Table 1.

The correlation between calcium scoring and degree of stenosis, coronary artery disease (CAD) and cardiac events.

Calcium scoring	0	1–10	11–100	101–400	401–1000	≧1001
Number of cases	15	0	16	25	16	28
Cardiac events+ (n = 56)	2 (13.3%)	0	8 (50%)	14 (56%)	11 (68.7%)	21 (75%)
	Degree of stenosis (n = 100)						Mean ± SD
0 = no (n = 19)	10 (66.7%)	0	4 (25%)	3 (16%)	2 (12.5%)	0	87.32 ± 156.52*
1 = minimal or mild (n = 9)	2 (13.3%)	0	2 (12.5%)	3 (12%)	2 (12.5%)	0	220.11 ± 225.99*
2 = moderate (n = 15)	1 (6.7%)	0	1 (6.3%)	4 (12%)	3 (18.8%)	6 (21.4%)	1143.87 ± 1284.63*
3 = severe (n = 57)	2 (13.3%)	0	9 (56.2%)	15 (60%)	9 (56.2%)	22 (78.6%)	1531.09 ± 3851.32*
No CAD = 0 + 1 (n = 28)	12	0	6	6	4	0	130 ± 188.29*
CAD = 2 + 3 (n = 72)	3	0	10	19	12	28	1450.417 ± 3471.24*
	Coronary artery disease (n = 72)
One vessel (n = 33)	3 (100%)	0	10 (100%)	8 (42.1%)	6 (50%)	6 (21.4%)
Two vessels (n = 26)	0	0	0	8 (42.1%)	3 (25%)	15 (53.6%)
Three vessels (n = 13)	0	0	0	3 (15.8%)	3 (25%)	7 (25%)

*Statistically significant (P < 0.001).

⁺Followup for cardiac events was successful in 98 of 100 patients.