Title
Risk Reclassification With Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography-Visualized Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease According to 2018 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Cholesterol Guidelines (from the Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography Evaluation for Clinical Outcomes : An International Multicenter Registry [CONFIRM])
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2019
Publication Title
American Journal of Cardiology
Abstract
© 2019 The 2018 American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) cholesterol management guideline recommends risk enhancers in the borderline-risk and statin recommended/intermediate-risk groups. We determined the risk reclassification by the presence and severity of coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA)-visualized coronary artery disease (CAD) according to statin eligibility groups. Of 35,281 individuals who underwent CCTA, 1,303 asymptomatic patients (age 59, 65% male) were identified. Patients were categorized as low risk, borderline risk, statin recommended/intermediate risk or statin recommended/high risk according to the guideline. CCTA-visualized CAD was categorized as no CAD, nonobstructive, or obstructive. Major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) were defined as a composite outcome of all-cause mortality, nonfatal myocardial infarction, and late coronary revascularization (>90 days). We tested a reclassification wherein no CAD reclassifies downward, and the presence of any CAD reclassifies upward. During a median follow-up of 2.9 years, 93 MACE events (7.1%) were observed. Among the borderline-risk and statin-recommended/intermediate-risk groups eligible for risk enhancers, the presence or absence of any CCTA-visualized CAD led to a net increase of 2.3% of cases and 22.4% of controls correctly classified (net reclassification index [NRI] 0.27, 95% CI 0.13 to 0.41, p = 0.0002). The NRI was not significant among low- or statin-recommended/high-risk patients (all p >0.05). The presence or absence of CCTA-visualized CAD, including both obstructive and nonobstructive CAD, significantly improves reclassification in patients eligible for risk enhancers in 2018 ACC/AHA guidelines. Patients in low- and high-risk groups derive no significant improvement in risk reclassification from CCTA.
Volume
124
Issue
9
First Page
1397
Last Page
1405
DOI
10.1016/j.amjcard.2019.07.045
ISSN
00029149
Recommended Citation
Han, Donghee; Beecy, Ashley; Anchouche, Khalil; Gransar, Heidi; Dunham, Patricia C.; Lee, Ji Hyun; Achenbach, Stephan; Al-Mallah, Mouaz H.; Andreini, Daniele; Berman, Daniel S.; Bax, Jeroen J.; Budoff, Matthew J.; Cademartiri, Filippo; Callister, Tracy Q.; Chang, Hyuk Jae; Chinnaiyan, Kavitha; Chow, Benjamin J.W.; Cury, Ricardo C.; DeLago, Augustin; Feuchtner, Gudrun; Hadamitzky, Martin; Hausleiter, Joerg; Kaufmann, Philipp A.; Kim, Yong Jin; Leipsic, Jonathon A.; Maffei, Erica; Marques, Hugo; de Araújo Gonçalves, Pedro; Pontone, Gianluca; Raff, Gilbert L.; Rubinshtein, Ronen; Villines, Todd C.; and Lu, Yao, "Risk Reclassification With Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography-Visualized Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Disease According to 2018 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Cholesterol Guidelines (from the Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography Evaluation for Clinical Outcomes : An International Multicenter Registry [CONFIRM])" (2019). Articles. 169.
https://scholarlyworks.beaumont.org/cardiology_articles/169