Thoracic aortic calcification across the clinical dysglycemic continuum in a large Asian population free of cardiovascular symptoms.

Thoracic aortic calcification across the clinical dysglycemic continuum in a large Asian population free of cardiovascular symptoms.

Thoracic aortic calcification (TAC) is tightly linked to pathological atherosclerosis and associated with certain cardiovascular diseases. While diabetes mellitus (DM) is known as a coronary heart disease equivalent, we examined the presence of TAC across the dysglycemic spectrum of diabetes mellitu...

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Main Authors: Jui-Peng Tsai, Richard Kuo, Jing-Yi Sun, Chun-Ho Yun, Kuo-Tze Sung, Chuan-Chuan Liu, Jen-Yuan Kuo, Chung-Lieh Hung, Tung-Hsin Wu, Jiun-Lu Lin, Ta-Chuan Hung, Chia-Yuan Liu, Charles Jia-Yin Hou, Hung-I Yeh, Hiram G Bezerra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207089

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