A computed tomography (CT) scan gives multiple two-dimensional slices of the body and is very good at looking at many medical ...

Understanding calcified coronary artery disease, its risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention for a ...

Sometimes there is calcium in the outside of the blood vessels without any cholesterol plaque inside the blood vessels. The ...

The best way of being sure that you are getting lead-free curcumin or turmeric is through third-party lab testing. Curcumin ...

A new risk calculator accurately identified participants who had calcium buildup in their heart arteries and those who had a higher future heart attack risk, in an analysis of about 7,000 adults in ...

FastWave Medical has completed the initial first-in-human procedures in the multicentre feasibility study of the Sola ...

Men who participate in high-volume endurance exercise have greater atherosclerotic risk vs. nonathletes and women who ...

Something hiding in everyday foods like rice, wheat, apples, and coffee could potentially help protect your heart from ...

Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events (PREVENT) risk score accurately identifies individuals with coronary artery calcium.

A new study finds a better way to predict heart attack risk: combining the PREVENT risk model with a CT scan of the coronary ...

Researchers found that peri-coronary adipose tissue attenuation (PCAT), a marker of coronary inflammation, is independently ...