Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of Americans. In the United States, it's estimated that someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds. These are scary statistics, but there's one test that can give ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regular readers of my column know I have been very bullish about the Coronary Calcium Scan, also known as a calcium score test or ...

(WISH) — A simple scan that costs $99 could predict a heart attack. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of men and women in the United States, and affects all ages, races and genders. The U.S. Centers ...

TAMPA (BLOOM) – Frankie Maldonado, the Director of Operations for Life Guard Imaging, and Brandi McMillan, Licensed CT Technician, join Gayle Guyardo, the host of Bloom, to share more about how their ...

Cardiologist explains why some younger adults with obesity, diabetes or smoking history may need a CT angiogram to detect ...

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My brother returned from a calcium scan of his heart a few years ago with the happy news that his coronary arteries were free of hardened plaque that could suggest serious underlying heart disease.

DEAR DR. ROACH: As a 73-year-old woman, I had a coronary calcium scan done when my new primary care physician wanted to start me on a statin. He discouraged me from having the scan done, saying it ...

The underlying cause of nearly all heart attacks is clogging of the arteries with cholesterol (atherosclerosis). It starts early in life and by middle age, can be very advanced. The problem is, even ...

HeartLung Corporation announced the publication of a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology titled “Comparing Incidence of Heart Failure in Individuals with Enlarged Cardiac ...

Excess cholesterol initially builds up in fatty deposits, called plaques, in the arteries that supply blood to the heart. To begin, these fatty plaques are “soft” – and are composed of just fatty ...

Regular readers of my column know I have been very bullish about the Coronary Calcium Scan, also known as a calcium score test or coronary calcium score, as a test for heart disease risk. I take my ...