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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 4.

CAC Prevalence and Amount Compared With FRS Categories, Stratified by Race (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
White (n = 1,566) n = 1,307 n = 159 n = 64 n = 36

Median CAC score (IQR)* 16.5 (5.1–63.3) 22.4 (6.6–53.5) 16.8 (9.8–31.8) 24.1 (10.0–161.2)
CAC score >0, % (n = 183) 9.3 19.5 20.3 47.2 <0.01
CAC score ≥100, % (n = 34) 1.7 3.1 1.6 16.7

Black (n = 1,266) n = 1,065 n = 128 n = 51 n = 22

Median CAC score (IQR)* 34.6 (4.7–64.6) 13.2 (3.7–30.0) 45.4 (12.5–108.2) 76.9 (36.3–215.7)
CAC score >0, % (n = 96) 4.8 21.1 17.7 40.9 <0.01
CAC score ≥100, % (n = 17) 0.8 1.6 5.9 18.2
*

Among those with a CAC score >0.

Abbreviations as in Table 2.