If you could prevent yourself from having a heart attack, would you do it? It sounds like a no-brainer, but the signs of being at an increased risk of becoming one of the 805,000 people a year in the ...

A coronary calcium scan can reveal what’s going on inside the arteries in an easily accessible and inexpensive manner. So, ...

What Is Coronary Calcification And Why Does It Matter? Coronary calcification (CC) refers to calcium deposits in the walls of the arteries of the heart. While people often have no symptoms at first, ...

A new study published suggests that the connection between coronary artery calcification—a measure of calcium buildup in the ...

Traditional risk assessment for cardiovascular disease (CVD) uses several factors to compile scores to formulate an estimated CVD risk, used by clinicians to advise their patients. Coronary artery ...

Coronary artery calcium scoring with CT can identify symptomatic patients with a very low risk of heart attacks or strokes. Researchers said the findings may one day help some patients with stable ...

Credit: Thinkstock Routine patient information, serology results, and cardiac ultrasound findings can identify patients at high risk for severe coronary artery calcification. Investigators have ...