In an interview with heart wire, Nicholls noted that the assessment of coronary calcium is one of the most topical issues in cardiovascular medicine, with much debate regarding how clinicians should ...

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CBSET, a not-for-profit preclinical research institute dedicated to translational research, education, and advancement of medical technologies, announced today that ...

Calcified coronary plaque in people under 50 years, even a small amount, was strongly associated with increased risk of developing clinical coronary heart disease in the decade after, according to a ...

I have written numerous columns about the coronary calcium scan, which detects the amount of calcium present in atherosclerotic plaques in the coronary arteries. This test is important because such ...

As an avid exercising vegetarian, admittedly I have been quite smug in assessing my risk of heart disease. Goodness gracious, I’m doing everything right, following the rules of good preventive health ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. - People living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and without known cardiovascular disease have two to three times the noncalcified coronary plaque burden of non-HIV healthy ...

Heart doctors are capturing images of the inside of heart arteries, helping them watch plaque respond to cholesterol drugs in ...

The amount of calcified plaque in the heart's arteries is a better predictor of future heart attacks than of strokes, with similar findings across sex and racial groups, according to new research from ...

Contrary to popular belief, arterial plaque buildup is often reversible without surgery, according to Dr. Vassily Eliopoulos. He emphasizes that "soft plaques" are the primary cause of heart attacks ...

Cleerly, a leader in AI-based cardiovascular imaging, presented new, late-breaking science from the international CONFIRM2 Registry at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) 2025 ...

CHICAGO—Men with severe calcified Peyronie’s disease (PD) plaques are more likely to progress to surgical treatment than men with non-calcified plaques, researchers reported at the World Meeting on ...