Aortic valve calcium as a novel risk marker for kidney function deterioration: The MESA study
Abdollahi A, Sani M, Shabani M, Matuck B, Blaha M, Wu C, Ambale-Venkatesh B, Budoff M, Strom J, Rotter J, Post W, Blumenthal R, Bluemke D, Ghahramani N, Lima J, Whelton S. Aortic valve calcium as a novel risk marker for kidney function deterioration: The MESA study. European Journal Of Internal Medicine 2025, 136: 49-55. PMID: 40263084, DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2025.03.037.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMulti-Ethnic Study of AtherosclerosisRisk of incident chronic kidney diseaseIncident chronic kidney diseaseAortic valve calciumInternational Classification of DiseasesChronic kidney diseaseCardiac CT scansAdjusted Cox proportional hazards regression modelsMultivariable adjusted Cox proportional hazards regression modelsParticipants free of chronic kidney diseaseCardiovascular diseaseMulti-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis studyValve calciumCT scanCVD risk factorsHistory of cardiovascular diseaseCategorized as 0Higher risk of incident CKDFree of chronic kidney diseaseAssociated with increased risk of mortalityMulti-Ethnic StudyAtherosclerotic CVD risk factorsMulti-ethnic cohortAPOE-e4 genotypeClassification of diseases
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