American Heart Journal
Volume 160, Issue 1 , Pages 49-57.e1 , July 2010

The BioImage Study: Novel approaches to risk assessment in the primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease—study design and objectives

  • Pieter Muntendam, MD

      Affiliations

    • BG Medicine Inc, Waltham, MA
    • ,
  • Carol McCall, FSA, MAAA

      Affiliations

    • Humana Inc, Louisville, KY
    • ,
  • Javier Sanz, MD

      Affiliations

    • The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Erling Falk, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital (Skejby), Aarhus, Denmark
    • ,
  • Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
    • Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Madrid (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Mount Sinai Medical Center, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1030, New York, NY, 10029, USA.
    • ,
  • for the High-Risk Plaque Initiative

      Affiliations

    • Additional investigators participating in the BioImage Study are listed in the online Appendix.

Received 26 August 2009 ,Accepted 11 February 2010.

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 Clinical trial registration: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00738725?term = bioimage&rank=1.

PII: S0002-8703(10)00165-1

doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2010.02.021

American Heart Journal
Volume 160, Issue 1 , Pages 49-57.e1 , July 2010

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