Andreas Fotopoulos, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Athanasia Georgiou, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Chrissa Sioka MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

John Kalef-Ezra DPHIL, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Konstantinos Pappas MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Athanasios Papadopoulos MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Ioannis Goudevenos MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

00030490-DMT et al, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

To investigate if low bone mineral density is correlated with coronary artery disease.

Sixty four consecutive patients, mean age (60+11) years old, who had been subjected to coronary angiography for evaluation of coronary artery disease (CAD), underwent spinal and hip x-ray absorptiometry scans (DXA). The DXA results were analyzed and compared between the patients with abnormal and normal coronary angiography.

Among all patients who had angiography, 74% demonstrated coronary artery stenosis above 50% in at least one artery. The DXA examination showed linear negative correlation between bone mineral density in the lumbar spine and the hip and the number of affected coronary vessels (p=0.008 and p=0.013, respectively). There was no statistical differences between the results of the lumbar spine and hip (p=0.19). In addition, there was a trend towards lower bone mineral density in patients that had been subjected in the past to angioplasty.

Severe coronary artery disease is correlated with low bone mineral density.

Patients with CAD should be screened with DXA to prevent future bone fractures.

Fotopoulos, A, Georgiou, A, Sioka, C, Kalef-Ezra, J, Pappas, K, Papadopoulos, A, Goudevenos, I, et al, 0, Bone Mineral Density and Coronary Artery Stenosis.  Radiological Society of North America 2009 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, November 29 - December 4, 2009 ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2009/8010437.html