CT scanning to detect coronary artery disease ...

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) CT scans are becoming a more commonly used tool to effectively determine a patient’s future risk of heart disease and heart attack. These minimally invasive scans measure ...

Mass General Brigham researchers have developed a new AI tool in collaboration with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to probe through previously collected CT scans and identify ...

From zero to 1,000, calcium scores are guiding doctors on how to assess heart disease and set cholesterol goals.

That overlap matters because roughly 19 million noncardiac chest CTs are performed each year in the United States. Every one ...

Race/ethnicity and country important to consider when interpreting coronary artery calcium ...

MONTREAL, Canada—Whether a patient undergoes coronary artery calcium (CAC) screening depends on the type of doctor they see, with large sex differences observed over the past decade at a single ...

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 ...

A scan that takes merely 10 minutes may be able to tell you whether you are at risk of having a heart attack and suffering from coronary artery disease. Lynda Hollander, 64, a social worker and runner ...