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Figure 1. CVD Events per 1,000 Person-Years by Strata of
CAC and LDL-C
CAC predicts ASCVD risk independent of LDL-C. Patients with lower LDL-C but higher CAC
remain high risk, while patients with higher LDL-C but CAC=0 remain low risk.
Source: Reproduced with permission from Martin SS, Blaha M, Blankenstein R, Agatston A, Rivera JJ,
Virani SS, Ouyang P, Jones SR, Blumenthal RS, Budoff MJ, Nasir K. "Dyslipidemia, CAC, and incident
ASCVD: implications for statin therapy from the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis." Circulation,
2014; 129(1):77-86.
