When evaluating a patient with stable chest pain and no known coronary artery disease (CAD), how does the clinician decide whether to order imaging or other diagnostic tests? One approach involves a ...

Adding clinical risk factors and a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score to the conventional diagnostic algorithm for chest pain improves the prediction and discrimination of patients with suspected ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In suspected obstructive CAD, clinical models with risk factors and a coronary artery calcium score identified ...

Researchers compared the estimation of the presence of disease by primary care clinicians and an expert panel. Primary care clinicians overestimate the probability of disease before and after ...

June 14, 2012 (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) — An international group of researchers has developed what they say is an improved model for predicting the presence of coronary artery disease (CAD) in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Reductions in forced expiratory volume in 1 second and forced vital capacity had the ability to support asthma ...