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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2012 Sep;5(9):923–930. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2012.01.022

Table 3.

CAC Prevalence and Amount Compared With FRS Categories, Stratified by Sex (N = 2,832)

FRS Categories
CAC Score Group 0%–2.5% (n = 2,372) 2.6%–5% (n = 287) 5.1%–10% (n = 115) >10% (n = 58) p Value
Males (n = 1,327) n = 927 n = 241 n = 106 n = 53

 Median CAC score (IQR)* 20.6 (5.6–64.6) 16.6 (5.6–41.8) 18.9 (10.8–76.5) 60.6 (20.6–215.7)
 CAC score >0, % (n = 203) 11.9 20.8 18.9 43.4 <0.01
 CAC score ≥100, % (n = 37) 1.9 2.5 3.8 17.0

Females (n = 1,505) n = 1,445 n = 46 n = 9 n = 5

 Median CAC score (IQR)* 15.0 (4.2–61.7) 19.1 (4.9–57.9) 30.6 (15.9–45.4) 33.0 (16.4–571.1)
 CAC score >0, % (n = 76) 4.4 17.4 22.2 60.0 <0.01
 CAC score ≥100, % (n = 14) 0.8 2.2 0.0 20.0
*

Among those with a CAC score >0.

Abbreviations as in Table 2.