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For select risk-enhanced individuals at intermediate risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), researchers found a way to ...

People with intermediate-risk scores on coronary artery calcium testing who received statins and intensive health coaching ...

"This calcium points to the accumulation of plaque that can cause heart disease," he told Fox News Digital. The higher the score, the more calcium in the arteries, thus a greater likelihood of a ...

Seeing is believing. Patients shown proof of calcification adhered better to statins; those without CAC avoided overtreatment ...

What is a coronary calcium score? “A calcium score is a fast, noninvasive, quantitative measure of coronary plaque,” said Jacob Townsend, M.D., interventional cardiologist at UAB St. Vincent’s. “It is ...

I started taking vitamin K2 because I read that it helps move calcium from the blood into the bones. Fast forward to last year, my doctor had me do a scan to check for arterial plaque because my ...

The combination of coronary artery calcium (CAC) score with a primary prevention strategy in intermediate-risk patients with a family history of coronary artery disease was associated with reduction ...

which detects the amount of calcium present in atherosclerotic plaques in the coronary arteries. This test is important because such plaques gradually clog the arteries reducing blood flow to the ...