Thoracic aortic calcification across the clinical dysglycemic continuum in a large Asian population free of cardiovascular symptoms

• Jui-Peng Tsai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jui-Peng Tsai, Richard Kuo

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7208-0183

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• Richard Kuo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jui-Peng Tsai, Richard Kuo

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan, Mackay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Jing-Yi Sun,

  Roles Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chun-Ho Yun,

  Roles Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan, Mackay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Kuo-Tze Sung,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chuan-Chuan Liu,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations Graduate Institute of Health Care Organization Administration, College of Public Health National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Health Evaluation Center, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medical Technology, Yuanpei University of Science and Technology, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan

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• Jen-Yuan Kuo,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chung-Lieh Hung ,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jotaro3791@gmail.com (CLH); tung@ym.edu.tw (THW)

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Health Care Organization Administration, College of Public Health National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Tung-Hsin Wu ,

  Roles Supervision

  * E-mail: jotaro3791@gmail.com (CLH); tung@ym.edu.tw (THW)

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Jiun-Lu Lin,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Ta-Chuan Hung,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Mackay Medicine Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chia-Yuan Liu,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Charles Jia-Yin Hou,

  Roles Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6602-5532

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• Hung-I Yeh,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Hiram G. Bezerra

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cardiovascular Department, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, United States of America

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