The clinical significance of medial arterial calcification in end-stage renal disease in women.

Medial arterial calcification is common in advanced kidney disease but its impact on cardiovascular disease is uncertain because imaging techniques used to date cannot reliably distinguish it from atherosclerotic calcification. We have previously shown that breast arterial calcification (BAC) is exclusively medial and is a marker of generalized medial calcification in end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Therefore, the presence of BAC on mammograms in 202 women with ESRD (mean duration 4.

The risk for medial arterial calcification in CKD.

Background And Objectives: CKD is a risk factor for medial artery calcification, but the CKD stage at which this risk begins is unknown. Because breast arterial calcification (BAC) is a marker of generalized medial arterial calcification, mammography was used to detect medial arterial calcification in women with different CKD stages.

Design, Setting, Participants, & Measurements: This was a retrospective, cross-sectional study of women with and without CKD matched for age and diabetes and identified from mammograms obtained in 2006-2011.