Current guidelines and literature on screening for coronary artery calcium for cardiac risk assessment are reviewed for both
general and special populations. It is shown that for both general and special populations a zero score excludes most clinically
relevant coronary artery disease. The importance of standardization of coronary artery calcium measurements by multi-detector
CT is discussed.
Keywords Coronary artery calcium - Coronary artery atherosclerosis - Coronary risk assessment - Coronary artery CT
This consensus article is being published concurrently in the Springer journal European Radiology.