Long-term statin therapy is associated with severe coronary artery calcification

• Kyari Sumayin Ngamdu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kyari Sumayin Ngamdu, Dhairyasheel S. Ghosalkar

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Departments of Research and Medicine, Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Research, Ocean State Research Institute, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Dhairyasheel S. Ghosalkar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kyari Sumayin Ngamdu, Dhairyasheel S. Ghosalkar

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Departments of Research and Medicine, Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Research, Ocean State Research Institute, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Hojune E. Chung,

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

  Affiliations Departments of Research and Medicine, Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Research, Ocean State Research Institute, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Jared L. Christensen,

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

  Affiliations Departments of Research and Medicine, Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Research, Ocean State Research Institute, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7366-8357

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• Cadence Lee,

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

  Affiliations Departments of Research and Medicine, Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Research, Ocean State Research Institute, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5437-4273

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• Celia A. Butler,

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

  Affiliations Departments of Research and Medicine, Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Research, Ocean State Research Institute, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Tiffany Ho,

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

  Affiliations Departments of Research and Medicine, Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Research, Ocean State Research Institute, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Alice Chu,

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

  Affiliations Departments of Research and Medicine, Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Research, Ocean State Research Institute, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Jacob R. Heath,

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

  Affiliations Departments of Research and Medicine, Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Research, Ocean State Research Institute, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Muhammad Baig,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Departments of Research and Medicine, Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Research, Ocean State Research Institute, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7825-062X

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• Wen-Chih Wu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departments of Research and Medicine, Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Research, Ocean State Research Institute, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Gaurav Choudhary,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departments of Research and Medicine, Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Research, Ocean State Research Institute, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

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• Alan R. Morrison

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alan_morrison@brown.edu, alan.morrison2@va.gov

  Affiliations Departments of Research and Medicine, Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Research, Ocean State Research Institute, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2412-7669

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