Concordantly, when we stratified participants by their baseline ASCVD event risk, we observed that among participants in the higher ASCVD risk category (92% of whom had CAC scores >0 at baseline), participants with intervening pneumonia showed a trend towards a larger and steeper CAC progression than controls.
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Coronary artery calcium before and after hospitalization with pneumonia: The MESA study.
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