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Elsevier, Preventive Medicine, (77), p. 150-154, 2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.05.025
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The mediation of coronary calcification in the association between risk scores and cardiac troponin T elevation in healthy adults: Is atherosclerosis a good prognostic precursor of coronary disease?
Journal article published in 2015 by
Antonio Ivan Lazzarino 
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Mark Hamer,
Livia Carvalho,
David Gaze,
Paul Collinson,
Andrew Steptoe
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Mark Hamer,
Livia Carvalho,
David Gaze,
Paul Collinson,
Andrew Steptoe
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Abstract
•The classic cardiac risk scores are based on factors associated with atherosclerosis.•We test atherosclerosis as a mediator between risk scores and cardiac damage.•The more accurate a score is, the less it is mediated by atherosclerosis.•The association with atherosclerosis limits the accuracy of cardiac risk scores.•Atherosclerosis is not a good prognostic precursor of cardiac events.