The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Association between depressive symptoms and thoracic aortic calcification, and their independent and joint prognostic value for incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in the MESA cohort

By Daiki Arai, Quinn White, Keishi Ichikawa, Matthew Jay Budoff

Cohort study of 2,600 peoplePopulations

Declared no competing interests

The paper

Daiki Arai, Quinn White, Keishi Ichikawa, Matthew Jay Budoff

University of Debrecen; The Lundquist Institute

The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, 19 Aug 2026

doi.org/10.1007/s10554-026-03771-0 PubMed 42616253

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