People with a coronary artery calcium score of zero showed very low risk of major adverse cardiovascular events at follow-up. Only four of the 755 participants in the group, or 0.5%, had a major ...

Coronary artery calcium scoring with CT was developed to noninvasively measure the amount of calcium in the arteries of the heart. Higher scores are linked with atherosclerosis, a buildup of ...

ANSWER: The coronary artery calcium score is obtained by a special CT scan of the heart, looking for calcium deposits in the blood vessels to the heart. This is strong evidence for atherosclerosis ...

A 10-year follow-up study of more than 6,000 people who underwent heart CT scans suggests that a high coronary artery calcium score puts people at greater risk not only for heart and vascular ...

In the MESA cohort, both CAC score and polygenic risk score were significantly associated with 10-year risk for incident CHD, with HRs of 2.6 (95% CI, 2.08-3.26) for CAC score and 1.43 (95% CI, 1. ...

If I had gotten between 11 and 100 in an artery, that would mean I had mild plaque and likely mild or minimal coronary stenosis — hardening of the arteries. A score of 101 to 400 means moderate ...

Investigators say the new computed-tomography-derived calcium coverage score provides information about cardiovascular events beyond that provided by commonly used measures of coronary calcium ...

"The reason the coronary calcium score may work so well at identifying vulnerability to a variety of chronic diseases is because it's a direct measurement of the cumulative effect of all risk ...

Among patients with stable chest pain referred for invasive coronary angiography, a low coronary artery calcium score was associated with low risk for heart attack and stroke, researchers reported ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am an 80-year-old male who’s very physically active. Six years ago, I had a coronary calcium scan resulting in a score of 3,708 with no symptoms. A few days later, a thallium ...