Coronary artery calcification on low-dose chest CT is an early predictor of severe progression of COVID-19—A multi-center, multi-vendor study

• Philipp Fervers ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: philipp.fervers@uk-koeln.de

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3663-3486

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• Jonathan Kottlors,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4966-0478

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• Nils Große Hokamp,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Johannes Bremm,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• David Maintz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Stephanie Tritt,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany

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• Orkhan Safarov,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany

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• Thorsten Persigehl,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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• Nils Vollmar,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Krankenhaus Porz am Rhein, Cologne, Germany

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• Paul Martin Bansmann,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, Krankenhaus Porz am Rhein, Cologne, Germany

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• Nuran Abdullayev

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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