Abstract
BackgroundCardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death so detection of breast arterial calcifications on annually screening mammography can predict the possibility of future cardiovascular problems.ResultsThe 100 female patients were divided into two groups according to age: 1st group with age ranging from 40 to 60 years and 2nd group with age ranging from 61 to 80 years. There is increased percentage of cardiac cases among the BAC-positive patients in the 2nd group with a significant p value = 0.022 and this proved that there was a correlation between presence of BAC and being a cardiac case in the 2nd group, unlike the 1st group which showed no correlation.ConclusionIncidental detection of breast arterial calcification in mammography in females above 60 years warrants further evaluation of their coronary atherosclerotic state and risk of future development of serious coronary artery disease.
Highlights
Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death so detection of breast arterial calcifications on annually screening mammography can predict the possibility of future cardiovascular problems
Our study included 100 female patients with their age ranging from 40 to 80 years old, with the mean age 56.8 years. They were subjected to cardiac investigations and mammography with evaluation of risk factors from their medical records
Our study showed that there was increased percentage of the Breast arterial calcifications (BAC)-positive cases among the 2nd group (54%) which was the group with the higher age in comparison with the 1st group (17%), showing an association between BAC and advancing age with a p value < 0.001
Summary
Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death so detection of breast arterial calcifications on annually screening mammography can predict the possibility of future cardiovascular problems. Cardiovascular disease was one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in the world. One-third of deaths were due to cardiovascular disease, causing health care costs and loss of productivity. Cardiovascular disease was the result of systemic arterial disease. Arterial calcification was considered a marker of overall atherosclerotic disease and was a marker for future cardiovascular events. Numerous studies had been done to estimate coronary artery calcification noninvasively by CT. Aortic calcification identified at chest radiography tends to be independently related to coronary heart disease (CHD), with an increased risk of 1.1 to 1.3
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