Use of coronary calcium scanning for predicting inducible myocardial ischemia: Influence of patients’ clinical presentation

The selection of patients for cardiac stress tests is generally based on assessment of chest pain symptoms, age, gender, and risk factors, but recent data suggest that coronary artery calcium (CAC) measurements can also be used to predict inducible myocardial ischemia. However, the potential influence of clinical factors on the relationship between CAC measurements and inducible ischemia has not yet been investigated. We prospectively performed...