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Editorial
. 2023 Jun 22:10:1235144.
doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2023.1235144. eCollection 2023.

Editorial: Old habits die hard: from risk calculators and stenosis evaluation to phenotyping coronary atherosclerosis using cardiac CT

Leandro Slipczuk  1 , Matthew J Budoff  2 , Todd C Villines  3
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Editorial

Editorial: Old habits die hard: from risk calculators and stenosis evaluation to phenotyping coronary atherosclerosis using cardiac CT

Leandro Slipczuk et al. Front Cardiovasc Med. .
No abstract available

Keywords: cardiac CT; coronary calcium score; coronary plaque; coronary stenosis; plaque burden and plaque calcification.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Coronary atherosclerosis phenotype by cardiac computed tomography. CAC, coronary artery calcium scoring; FFR-CT, fractional flow reserve calculation derived from computed tomography angiography; PCAT, pericoronary adipose tissue.
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