Lung Cancer Screening Eligibility in the Community: Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Coronary Artery Calcification, and

Michael T Lu1, Oyere K Onuma2, Joseph M Massaro2

  • 1From Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (M.T.L., U.H.); Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (O.K.O.); The Framingham Heart Study of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and Boston University, Framingham, MA (O.K.O., J.M.M., R.B.D., C.J.O., U.H.); Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA (J.M.M.); Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA (R.B.D.); Division of Intramural Research, NHLBI, Bethesda, MD (C.J.O.), and Cardiology Section, Department of Medicine, Boston Veteran's Administration Healthcare System, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (C.J.O.). mlu@mgh.harvard.edu.

Circulation
|September 21, 2016
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