Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Coronary CT angiography and coronary artery calcium scoring each have their benefits as a primary prevention ...

Last year, President Donald Trump's doctors screened him for heart disease using a test unfamiliar to many Americans. Now, research shows that that test, either alone or combined with other evaluation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coronary artery calcium scores are very effective in identifying men and women at risk for heart attacks. as well as death from ...

Having a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score of zero has generally been accepted as a marker of a very low risk of having a cardiac event within the next five years. However, age is a strong ...

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 ...

Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of Americans. In the United States, it's estimated that someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds. These are scary statistics, but there's one test that can give ...

Having a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score of zero has generally been accepted as a marker of a very low risk of having a cardiac event within the next five years. However, age is a strong ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cardiologists and clinicians do not often recognize the sex-specific CVD pathophysiology in women, especially ...

Your doctor tells you that you need a statin to lower your cholesterol and reduce your heart attack risk. You don't like taking medicine and your friend tells you that he had achy muscles after he ...

Angela Ryan Lee, MD, FACC, is a board-certified cardiology and internal medicine physician. She also holds board certifications from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and the National Board ...

In yesterday's 11:00 am session in Rome-Village 1 at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2014 Congress, we had the pleasure of testing the attitude and habits of cardiologists from around the ...

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 indicator of ...