From the *Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA;†Division of Research, New England Baptist Hospital, Boston, MA;‡Department of Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; §National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and its Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA; ¶Cardiology Division, MA General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; and ∥Cardiac MR CT PET Program, Department of Radiology, MA General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Acknowledgment date: March 28, 2008. First revision date: June 6, 2008. Acceptance date: June 9, 2008.
The manuscript submitted does not contain information about medical device(s)/drug(s).
Federal funds were received in support of this work. No benefits in any form have been or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this manuscript.
This work was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study contract (No. N01-HC-25195) for the recruitment, enrollment, and examination of the Offspring and Third Generation Cohort and the imaging by computed tomography scan. L.K. is supported by an Arthritis Foundation Postdoctoral Grant.
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