AI tool can quantify coronary calcium scores and associated CV risk more rapidly than clinicians: Study Medha Baranwal20 Sept 2022 8:30 PM ISTUSA: A novel deep learning-based model can automatically quantify coronary artery calcium (CAC) and its ability to cause future adverse cardiac events...
Can CAC absence identify patients with chest pain who can safely avoid additional downstream testing? Medha Baranwal25 July 2022 8:00 PM ISTUSA: The findings from a new study, published in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, support the role of a CAC score of 0 as a gatekeeper for more advanced...
CAC score provides modest gain in CVD risk assessment at expense of increasing cost: JAMA Medha Baranwal28 April 2022 10:00 AM ISTAustralia: A study determining the incremental gain from coronary artery calcium score (CACS) addition to a standard cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk...
Menopause Associated with elevated Coronary Artery Calcium Score: Study Dr. Shravani Dali10 Nov 2021 9:00 AM ISTMenopause is associated with coronary artery calcium score, suggests a study published in the Journal of Women's Health. Menopause and ageing...
CAC Testing may help predict CAD in Younger Patients at ASCVD risk: study Dr Sravan Kumar5 Nov 2021 9:00 AM ISTCoronary artery calcium (CAC), measured by noncontrast cardiac computed tomography (CT), is a noninvasive method to assess subclinical coronary...
CAC scoring helps identify which CVD patients will benefit from statin therapy: JAMA Medha Baranwal17 July 2021 11:15 AM ISTUSA: CT coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring can be used as an adjunct to risk-enhancing factor assessment to allow the health professionals to...
