Clearly, it's time for a change. What is a coronary calcium scan? The solution is having a test that reveals what’s going on ...

non-invasive coronary calcium scan to measure calcium build-up in her coronary arteries. Her score was 676 -- normal is zero. Carol changed her mind about that stress test, took it, and failed it ...

A new study has found that apolipoprotein B particle count and lipoprotein(a) count were critical indicators of risk for ...

Generating a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score requires a quick CT scan, with no intravenous (IV) access or IV contrast required. Results are available within minutes. The CT scan reliably ...

His autopsy report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, noted that DeMar’s left main coronary artery contained ...

A new study by Cardia Vision, LLC has revealed that a commonly used heart scan may be missing signs of early heart disease in ...

Caption A large new study of more than 40,000 patients from heart researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City finds that a zero coronary artery calcium score continues to be an accurate ...

However, a new approach to determining risk and selecting a statin is the use of the coronary artery calcium (CAC) score which is determined by taking a low-radiation dose image of the heart using ...

BACKGROUND: High-volume physical activity (PA) is associated with a higher prevalence of subclinical coronary artery disease ...