(KODE) — When you think of diagnostic tools for heart issues, you many think of a stress test, but even before that’s ordered, you may need a cardiac calcium test. “Basically when you develop ...

Do you know your risk of coronary artery disease, the most common form of heart disease? Dr. Regis Fernandes, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, says an easy and efficient test called a coronary calcium scan ...

A new study suggests that coronary artery calcium scans are most beneficial for people at intermediate risk of heart disease. Why this matters: Interest in CAC scans is on the rise, and cardiologists ...

The underlying cause of nearly all heart attacks is clogging of the arteries with cholesterol (atherosclerosis). It starts early in life and by middle age, can be very advanced. The problem is, even ...

In a new study of more than 40,000 patients, researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City have found that patients who have no evidence of calcium in their coronary arteries are not only ...

With the promise of better diagnosis, better prevention, and broader eligibility for previously unscannable patients, is ...

Calcium-score screening heart scans, also called coronary calcium scans, provide very useful and cost-effective information to help evaluate a person’s risk of coronary artery disease and heart attack ...

Dr. Nilay Shah analyzes the coronary artery calcium scan of a patient in his clinic at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. Study followed more than 6,000 adults across the U.S. for 10 years Calcium ...

It's an increasingly popular scan that measures calcium in the heart's arteries and helps predict risk of future heart disease. But according to a new Northwestern Medicine study, the quick and ...

A long list of Lynda Hollander's paternal relatives had heart disease, and several had undergone major surgeries. So when she hit her mid-50s and saw her cholesterol levels creeping up after menopause ...

My brother returned from a calcium scan of his heart a few years ago with the happy news that his coronary arteries were free of hardened plaque that could suggest serious underlying heart disease.

Doctors are already pretty good at predicting heart disease risk among healthy people, but a new study shows they could more accurately identify those at highest risk by adding a coronary artery ...