A study recently published in the Journal of the American Heart Association is prompting headlines like "Calcium supplements might hurt your heart." The new research suggests dietary calcium in the ...

Learn what a CAC scan is, what different calcium scores mean and whether this quick heart test is right for you.

The increasingly popular coronary artery calcium scan is helpful in guiding statin use in only a small share of cases, new ...

It's an increasingly popular scan that measures calcium in the heart's arteries and helps predict the risk of future heart ...

The coronary artery supplies blood to the heart. If calcium builds up in the coronary artery, it can lead to coronary artery disease and increase a person’s risk of a heart attack. Calcium is the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

TCT 1200: Contemporary National Healthcare Disparities, Outcomes, and Risk Predictors of Mortality in Coronary Angiography Utilization in Patients Admitted With NSTEMI Receive the the latest news, ...

In a recent study published in Circulation, researchers investigated the effects of socioeconomic position and race on the link between closeness to urban green and blue areas and cardiovascular ...