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Noninvasive Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring: Do We Always Need Invasive Computed Tomographic Angiography for Diagnostic Purposes?

Mojgan Sametzadeh, Habib Haybar, Mehran Saiahy, Ahmad Ahmadzadeh, Mohammad Davoodi, Atefeh Yoosefi,Ahmadreza Assareh and Seyed Mohammad Hasan Ade

Noninvasive Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring: Do We Always Need Invasive Computed Tomographic Angiography for Diagnostic Purposes?

The coronary artery disease (CAD) epidemic has emerged in the developing countries during the past two to three decades. It, however, has attracted less comment and little public health response, even within these countries. At present, developing countries are not widely recognized to contribute a greater share to the global burden of CAD than the developed countries. The most common cause of CAD is atherosclerosis.