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Editorial
. 2014 Jun 17:12:172.
doi: 10.1186/1479-5876-12-172.

It's time for a practical method quantifying vascular calcification

Giuseppe Vezzoli  1 , Alessandro Rubinacci, Monica Lazzaroni, Laura Soldati
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Editorial

It's time for a practical method quantifying vascular calcification

Giuseppe Vezzoli et al. J Transl Med. .
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Figure 1
Kaplan-Meier curve for the first cardiovascular event in CKD patients enrolled for the CREMA study. Five cardiovascular events occurred in patients with DXA calcification score 5-8 (35% of 14 patients; full line in the graph), while 9 events occurred in patients with score 0-4 (11.1% of 78 patients, p=0.02; dotted line).
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