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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2022 Mar 21;15(7):1259–1270. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2022.02.011

Central Illustration. Coronary artery calcium burden and incident sudden cardiac death.

Central Illustration.

There is a stepwise increase in SCD event rates across increasing CAC burden, and SCD survival probability significantly differed as early as 2 years of follow up across CAC burden categories. When added to traditional risk factors in the overall sample, CAC significantly improved the prediction of incident SCD.