Vineet Prakash, Sams Jaker, Amjad Burgan, Adam Jacques, David Fluck, Pankaj Sharma, Christopher H Fry, Thang S Han
Background: Smoking and dyslipidaemia are known individual risk factors of coronary artery disease (CAD). The present study examined the combined risk of smoking and dyslipidaemia on coronary atherosclerosis. Methods: Coronary artery calcium (CAC), measured by cardiac CT, was used to assess the extent of CAD, which was related to smoking and dyslipidaemia using logistic regression, adjusted for age, sex, hypertension, BMI and family history of ischaemic heart disease...
January 2021: JRSM Cardiovascular Disease