Recently, ischemic stroke has emerged as a new coronary artery disease (CAD) risk equivalent. Our purpose is to study the prevalence of CAD in ischemic stroke patients compared with that in non-stroke patients.We measured coronary calcium score (CCS) in 151 ischemic stroke patients without known CAD (stroke group) and compared it with 151 age- and sex-matched non-stroke patients (control group). CCS was significantly higher in the stroke group than in the control group (stroke group, median: 64, interquartile range: 3-382 vs. control group, median: 3, interquartile range: 0-65, p<0.0001). High-risk CAD, defined as a CCS≥400, was detected in 24.5

作者：Kohichiro, Iwasaki；Kayo, Haraoka；Toshikazu, Hamaguchi；Takaki, Imamura；Sanami, Kawada；Manabu, Ohno；Kenichi, Kashihara

来源：Journal of cardiology 2015 年 65卷 1期