Calcium scans can detect calcium deposits in coronary arteries to assess heart disease risk. The scan is most useful for people at medium risk for heart disease. A calcium score over 400 means a high ...

BOUNTIFUL — Andra Lalli, 65, leads an active lifestyle. She enjoys going to the gym and has taught fitness classes for years — which is why when she went in for a heart scan, her results were ...

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 ...

Preventive cardiologists have a wonderful tool for noninvasively identifying plaque (atherosclerosis) in the arteries to the heart: the coronary artery calcium (CAC) scan. Since 1/3 of Americans die ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Using a heart scan in the emergency room to rule out heart attacks and other problems in low-risk patients with chest pain can save hospitals billions of dollars, researchers said ...

A newly developed, non-invasive scan that models coronary blood flow using images of the heart, AI algorithms and/or computational fluid dynamics can help identify which patients with coronary artery ...

An artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted algorithm that incorporates information about inflammation detected on coronary CT angiography (CCTA) may help identify patients who require more-intensive ...