The role of cardiovascular CT in occupational health assessment for coronary heart disease: An expert consensus document from the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT)

A review of the current occupational guidelines suggests that many organizations still rely on traditional CHD risk evaluation with or without the use of cardiac stress testing (whether exercise ECG or functional imaging). This approach runs the risk of missing important occupational CAD. The literature review performed has identified that a cardiac CT based approach to determining occupational cardiovascular risk can be valuable mainly due to...