{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,18]],"date-time":"2026-06-18T07:46:42Z","timestamp":1781768802395,"version":"3.54.5"},"reference-count":24,"publisher":"Elsevier BV","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2016,3,1]],"date-time":"2016-03-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1456790400000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/tdm\/userlicense\/1.0\/"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["clinicalkey.jp","clinicalkey.com","atherosclerosis-journal.com","clinicalkey.es","clinicalkey.com.au","clinicalkey.fr","elsevier.com","sciencedirect.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Atherosclerosis"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2016,3]]},"DOI":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,1,19]],"date-time":"2016-01-19T20:00:55Z","timestamp":1453233655000},"page":"334-337","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/elsevier_cm_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"special_numbering":"C","title":["The relation between coronary tortuosity and calcium score in patients with chronic stable angina and normal coronaries by CT angiography"],"prefix":"10.1016","volume":"246","author":[{"given":"Mohammad","family":"El Tahlawi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Amal","family":"Sakrana","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Abdelrahman","family":"Elmurr","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mohammad","family":"Gouda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marwa","family":"Tharwat","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"78","reference":[{"key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"185","DOI":"10.1159\/000335123","article-title":"Twisted blood vessels: symptoms, etiology and biomechanical mechanisms","volume":"49","author":"Han","year":"2012","journal-title":"J.\u00a0Vasc. Res."},{"issue":"8","key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0024232","article-title":"Clinical implication of coronary tortuosity in patients with coronary artery disease","volume":"6","author":"Li","year":"2011","journal-title":"PLoS ONE"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"191","DOI":"10.1007\/BF03085979","article-title":"Coronary tortuosity: a long and winding road","volume":"15","author":"Zegers","year":"2007","journal-title":"Neth. Heart J."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"973","DOI":"10.1016\/j.amjcard.2011.05.030","article-title":"Severe coronary tortuosity or myocardial bridging in patients with chest pain, normal coronary arteries, and reversible myocardial perfusion defects","volume":"108","author":"Gaibazzi","year":"2011","journal-title":"Am. J. Cardiol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib5","first-page":"3581","article-title":"Coronary tortuosity is associated with reversible myocardial perfusion defects in patients without coronary artery disease","volume":"125","author":"Li","year":"2012","journal-title":"Chin. Med. J."},{"issue":"6","key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"671","DOI":"10.1007\/s10554-006-9186-4","article-title":"Tortuosity of coronary arteries: an indicator for impaired left ventricular relaxation?","volume":"23","author":"Turgut","year":"2007","journal-title":"Int. J. Cardiovasc. Imaging"},{"issue":"12","key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib7","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e26010","DOI":"10.5812\/ircmj.26010","article-title":"Diagnostic efficacy of vessel specific coronary calcium score in detection of coronary artery stenosis","volume":"16","author":"Motevalli","year":"2014","journal-title":"Iran. Red. Crescent Med. J."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib8","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"25","DOI":"10.1002\/(SICI)1097-0304(199605)38:1<25::AID-CCD7>3.0.CO;2-5","article-title":"Tortuosity of coronary arteries in chronic pressure and volume overload","volume":"38","author":"Jakob","year":"1996","journal-title":"Cath. Cardiovasc. Diagn."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib9","first-page":"568","article-title":"Mechanism of arterial and aneurysmal tortuosity","volume":"104","author":"Dobrin","year":"1988","journal-title":"Surgery"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib10","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"196","DOI":"10.1016\/S0002-8703(77)80280-9","article-title":"Correlation of age and heart weight with tortuosity and caliber of normal human coronary arteries","volume":"94","author":"Hutchins","year":"1977","journal-title":"Am. Heart J."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib11","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"361","DOI":"10.1177\/000331979804900505","article-title":"Tortuosity, kinking, and coiling of the carotid artery: expression of atherosclerosis or aging?","volume":"49","author":"Del Corso","year":"1998","journal-title":"Angiology"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib12","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1117","DOI":"10.1007\/s11538-014-9948-4","article-title":"Athero-protective effects of High Density Lipoproteins (HDL): an ODE model of the early stages of atherosclerosis","volume":"76","author":"Cohen","year":"2014","journal-title":"Bull. Math. Biol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib13","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"512","DOI":"10.1007\/s11886-014-0512-5","article-title":"Role HDL in those with diabetes","volume":"16","author":"Santos-Gallego","year":"2014","journal-title":"Curr. Cardiol. Rep."},{"issue":"4","key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib14","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"913","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ecl.2014.08.001","article-title":"Beginning to understand high-density lipoproteins","volume":"43","author":"Santos-Gallego","year":"2014","journal-title":"Endocrinol. Metab. Clin. North Am."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib15","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e477","DOI":"10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.739839","article-title":"Images in cardiovascular medicine. Arterial tortuosity syndrome: phenotypic features and cardiovascular manifestations","volume":"117","author":"Satish","year":"2008","journal-title":"Circulation"},{"issue":"8","key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib16","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0042558","article-title":"Impact of coronary tortuosity on coronary pressure: numerical simulation study","volume":"7","author":"Li","year":"2012","journal-title":"PLoS ONE"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib17","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2379","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jacc.2007.02.059","article-title":"Role of endothelial shear stress in the natural history of coronary atherosclerosis and vascular remodeling: molecular, cellular, and vascular behavior","volume":"49","author":"Chatzizisis","year":"2007","journal-title":"J.\u00a0Am. Coll. Cardiol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib18","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"9","DOI":"10.1038\/labinvest.3700215","article-title":"The role of shear stress in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis","volume":"85","author":"Cunningham","year":"2005","journal-title":"Lab. Invest."},{"issue":"6","key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib19","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"846","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jacc.2004.12.026","article-title":"Does shear stress modulate both plaque progression and regression in the thoracic aorta? Human study using serial magnetic resonance imaging","volume":"45","author":"JJ1","year":"2005","journal-title":"J.\u00a0Am. Coll. Cardiol."},{"issue":"4","key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib20","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"401","DOI":"10.1007\/s11883-014-0401-9","article-title":"Pathophysiology of acute coronary syndrome","volume":"16","author":"Santos-Gallego","year":"2014","journal-title":"Curr. Atheroscler. Rep."},{"issue":"11","key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib21","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1121","DOI":"10.5603\/KP.a2013.0292","article-title":"Coronary artery tortuosity: comparison with retinal arteries and carotid intima-media thickness","volume":"71","author":"Davutoglu","year":"2013","journal-title":"Kardiol. Pol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib22","first-page":"14","article-title":"Severe coronary tortuosity and the relationship to significant coronary artery disease","volume":"105","author":"Groves","year":"2009","journal-title":"W.\u00a0V. Med. J."},{"issue":"Suppl.\u00a0l.","key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib23","first-page":"S115","article-title":"Chronic stable angina patients with tortuous coronary arteries: clinical symptoms and risk factors","volume":"7","author":"Esfahani","year":"2012","journal-title":"ARYA Atheroscler. J."},{"issue":"6","key":"10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029_bib24","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0099783","article-title":"Coronary plaque burden, as determined by cardiac computed tomography, in patients with myocardial infarction and angiographically normal coronary arteries compared to healthy volunteers: a prospective multicenter observational study","volume":"9","author":"Brolin","year":"2014","journal-title":"PLoS ONE"}],"container-title":["Atherosclerosis"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S0021915016300284?httpAccept=text\/plain","content-type":"text\/plain","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S0021915016300284?httpAccept=text\/xml","content-type":"text\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,16]],"date-time":"2018-09-16T03:51:49Z","timestamp":1537069909000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0021915016300284"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2016,3]]},"references-count":24,"alternative-id":["S0021915016300284"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029","relation":{},"ISSN":["0021-9150"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0021-9150","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2016,3]]},"assertion":[{"value":"Elsevier","name":"publisher","label":"This article is maintained by"},{"value":"The relation between coronary tortuosity and calcium score in patients with chronic stable angina and normal coronaries by CT angiography","name":"articletitle","label":"Article Title"},{"value":"Atherosclerosis","name":"journaltitle","label":"Journal Title"},{"value":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.atherosclerosis.2016.01.029","name":"articlelink","label":"CrossRef DOI link to publisher maintained version"},{"value":"article","name":"content_type","label":"Content Type"},{"value":"Copyright \u00a9 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.","name":"copyright","label":"Copyright"}]}}