Coronary Artery Calcium and the Age-Specific Competing Risk of Cardiovascular Versus Cancer Mortality: The Coronary Artery Calcium Consortium

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is a guideline recommended cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk stratification tool that increases with age and is associated with non-cardiovascular disease outcomes including cancer. We sought to define the age-specific change in the association between CAC and cause-specific mortality.

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