Low coronary artery calcium score associated with an excellent prognosis regardless of a person's age, new study finds Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli2 April 2025 8:30 AM ISTHaving 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...
Coronary artery calcium associated with prevalence of diastolic dysfunction: BMC Jacinthlyn Sylvia13 March 2025 8:45 AM ISTA new study published in the journal of BMC Medicine showed that coronary artery calcium (CAC) and diastolic dysfunction (DD) prevalence were...
Coronary calcium scores effectively predict risk of heart attack and overall mortality in both women and men: Study Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli21 Nov 2024 8:45 AM ISTCoronary artery calcium (CAC) scores have become a non-invasive way for physicians to easily determine how much plaque has built up inside a patient’s...
Researchers Highlight Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring as New Gatekeeper for Evaluating Stable Chest Pain Medha Baranwal7 Nov 2024 8:45 AM ISTUSA: A recent editorial comment in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging highlights the evolving role of coronary...
High and very high volumes of physical activity during follow-up not related to CAC progression: JAMA Medha Baranwal31 May 2024 8:00 AM ISTUSA: Physical activity has long been hailed as a cornerstone of good health, but its specific impact on cardiovascular health continues to interest...
CAC score predicts heart attacks, strokes in patients with stable chest pain: Study Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli9 March 2024 3:00 AM ISTGermany: A recent study published in Radiology revealed that coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring with CT can identify symptomatic patients with a...
Left Main Coronary Artery Calcium and Diabetes Confer Very-High-Risk Equivalence in CAC more than 1,000: Study Medha Baranwal6 March 2024 12:15 AM ISTUSA: Among asymptomatic patients with coronary artery calcium (CAC) score > 1,000, those with severe calcium in the left main coronary artery and...
Deep Learning CAC from routine Noncardiac CT Scans may predict cardiovascular risk: JACC Dr. Prem Aggarwal3 Nov 2023 10:45 AM ISTUSA: Incidental findings of coronary artery calcium (CAC), detected using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms during non-cardiac computed...
Coronary artery calcium evaluation with chest CT strongly linked to severity of coronary disease and mortality Dr. Shravani Dali2 Nov 2023 5:30 PM ISTCoronary artery calcium evaluation with chest CT strongly associated with severity of coronary disease and mortality suggests a new study published in...
CAC burden tied to cardiovascular risk in diabetics: Study Medha Baranwal9 Aug 2022 11:15 AM ISTUSA: A recent study in the Journal of Diabetes and its Complications has shown coronary artery calcium (CAC) burden to be associated with...
CAC scan more fruitful for youth with familial hypercholesterolemia or at risk for ASCVD: JACC Medha Baranwal20 May 2022 7:30 PM ISTUSA: A new tool that calculates coronary artery calcium (CAC) percentile scores by age, sex, and race can help clinicians to get a fuller picture of...
Routine reporting of CAC on all chest CTs could identify large number of patients with previously unknown CAC Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli15 May 2022 7:30 PM ISTLeesburg: Current guidelines recommend visual evaluation of coronary artery calcium (CAC) on all non-gated non-contrast chest CT examinations....
