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We asked whether other forms of resorptive bone loss such as microgravity (disuse) might also be associated with bone calcium accumulation in coronary arteries.<\/jats:p>\n<jats:p><jats:bold>METHODS:<\/jats:bold> We analyzed a de-identified database provided by NASA consisting of 52 astronauts who had flown a space mission around two determinations of coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores at 5-yr intervals and bone density determinations in the year prior to and 10 d and 1 yr following a space mission.<\/jats:p>\n<jats:p><jats:bold>RESULTS:<\/jats:bold> We found that in 38.5% of the astronauts, their CAC scores changed between pre- and postflight, with 95% of the CAC scores increasing. These astronauts were significantly older than the 61.5% whose CAC scores did not change, although the mission length was not different between the groups. Both groups lost bone acutely but had partial recovery over the year postflight.<\/jats:p>\n<jats:p><jats:bold>DISCUSSION:<\/jats:bold> Due to lack of uniform sampling times, we could not correlate changes in CAC score with bone loss and would advocate for synchronous determinations of CAC and bone density pre- and postflight.<\/jats:p>\n<jats:p><jats:bold>Klein GL, Jupiter DC. <jats:italic>Elevated coronary artery calcium scores in astronauts.<\/jats:italic> Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2025; 96(4):356\u2013359.<\/jats:bold><\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3357\/amhp.6590.2025","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,3]],"date-time":"2025-04-03T00:08:39Z","timestamp":1743638919000},"page":"356-359","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Elevated Coronary Artery Calcium Scores in Astronauts"],"prefix":"10.3357","volume":"96","author":[{"given":"Gordon L.","family":"Klein","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Daniel C.","family":"Jupiter","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1911","reference":[{"issue":"7","key":"B1","series-title":"Mayo Clin Proc.","first-page":"1237","article-title":"Long-term cardiovascular risk in astronauts: comparing NASA mission astronauts with a healthy cohort from the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study","volume":"97","author":"Charvat JM","year":"2022","unstructured":"Charvat JM, Leonard D, Barlow CE, DeFina LF, Willis BL,  Long-term cardiovascular risk in astronauts: comparing NASA mission astronauts with a healthy cohort from the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study. 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