Interplay Between Social Vulnerability Index and Coronary Artery Calcium Scores With Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events
In this no-cost community-based CAC cohort, SVI independently predicted adverse cardiovascular outcomes across all CAC strata. Focused efforts to mitigate the incremental risk associated with social vulnerability are needed.
Authors
- Sanjay Rajagopalan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6669-8163)
- Pedro Rafael Vieira de Oliveira Salerno (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5116-5062)
- Sadeer G Al-Kindi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1122-7695)
- Nour Tashtish (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7721-1119)
- Salil V. Deo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4729-1461)
- Zainab Albar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2685-7382)
- Khurram Nasir (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5376-2269)
- Santosh Kumar Sirasapalli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9373-8310)
- Shuo Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5184-3230)
Institutions
- Houston Methodist (US)
- University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (US)
- Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center (US)
- Case Western Reserve University (US)
- University of Glasgow (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging
- Published
- 2025-02-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1161/circimaging.124.016658
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.33