Importantly, 11 of these loci are specific to AS and show no association with coronary artery disease (CAD), highlighting the ...

Doctors are thinking differently about what drives cardiovascular issues. It’s no longer just about blood pressure and ...

The original risk score is based on traditional risk factors for heart disease, sex, race and coronary artery calcium (CAC) ...

Medical records of each patient were collected. Logistic regression analysis was performed to explore risk factors and the occurrence of coronary artery lesion in patients with Kawasaki disease.

I recently had a CAT scan of my chest as an evaluation for pneumonia. I didn’t have pneumonia, but I got an unexpected high calcium score in my coronary arteries. Does the calcium I eat affect this? I ...

type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors. After controlling for population size, researchers found that neighborhoods ...

Heart diseases are usually worried about in adulthood however there are some risk factors which begin developing in early ...

The research, published in the European Heart Journal, revealed that cold weather may increase the susceptibility to ...

A risk model accurately identifies patients with severe asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis and predicts their risk for stroke and CVD.

Severe coronary artery calcification in patients with CKD increases the risk for heart failure, heart valve calcification, and progression to kidney failure.

USA: A recent editorial comment in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging highlights the ...

A version of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) heart disease risk score that did not include race predicted heart disease risk just as well as the original version that includes race.