DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 81-year-old man (5 feet, 2 inches tall at 122 pounds) in good health, except that I have Type 2 diabetes. My A1C level has been in the range of 6.3% to 6.8% for the past ...

This is very important. You do not have to have calcium in order to have a plaque. For example, one of my patients had a calcium score of zero, yet he had a 70% disease that needed to be stented.

NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (UPI) --Predicting who is at high risk for a heart attack or death may be as simple as obtaining a person's coronary artery calcium score -- a noninvasive way to measure plaque ...

The coronary calcium score can give you important information on your risk of having a heart attack. Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of Americans.

A score of 1-99 indicates a mild case of plaque, a score of 100-299 a moderate case, and a score of 300 or more a high case.

DeGroat explains that zero is ideal, while less than 100 is mild, 100-400 is moderate, and more than 400 is severe. “Outside of the score itself, a calcium score that is less than the 50th percentile ...

Having 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 next five years. However, age is a strong ...

The 251 participants in the 400 and higher coronary artery calcium score group had 17 events for a significantly higher risk of 6.8%.

This calculator uses your exact number and doesn’t put people into categories the way your report did. If you had a calcium score of 399, for example, your 10-year risk would have been 16.2%.

A large study of more than 40,000 patients from cardiac researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City finds that a zero coronary artery calcium score, which shows no evidence of plaque ...

If your score is high, you need to speak to your doctor or a cardiologist about what to do next. You should probably not take calcium supplements, but you don't necessarily need to avoid dietary ...