Abstract #1302

Total Atherosclerotic Burden by Whole Body Magnetic Resonance Angiography Predicts Future Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events

Christina Lundberg¹, Lars Johansson¹, Charlotte Ebeling Barbier¹, Lars Lind², Hkan Ahlstrm¹, Tomas Hansen¹

¹Radiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; ²Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

We evaluated the atherosclerotic burden by whole-body MRA using the total atherosclerotic score (TAS). We found that TAS predicted the outcome of major adverse cardiovascular events.