Heart blockage, also known as coronary artery disease, occurs when plaque buildup narrows heart arteries, leading to symptoms ...

Researchers found that coronary atherosclerosis is prevalent in asymptomatic, middle-aged US adults without traditional ASCVD risk factors, and increases with higher levels of LDL-C, non-HDL-C ...

Subclinical, obstructive coronary atherosclerosis was linked to a more than 8-fold elevated risk for myocardial infarction in asymptomatic adults aged 40 years or older, according to researchers ...

What if the cure for a life-threatening heart condition wasn't a drug or surgery, but a supplement you could find on a store ...

Most people with coronary atherosclerosis benefit from a statin drug, which helps stabilize plaque and prevent rupture (the beginning of a heart attack).

Coronary artery calcification often begins as very small deposits that medical professionals call microcalcifications. These initial deposits tend to be between 0.5 and 15.0 micrometers (μm) in size.

Most people with coronary atherosclerosis benefit from a statin drug, which helps stabilize plaque and prevent rupture (the beginning of a heart attack). Aspirin helps prevent a blood clot, which ...

Multivariate analysis identified ACS, HbA1c level ≥6.5%, TG level ≥5.6 mmol/L, and SYNTAX score ≥23 as risk factors for the progression of native coronary atherosclerosis.

Four in 10 middle-aged individuals without a history of heart disease have silent coronary atherosclerosis and 1 in 20 have significant stenosis on coronary CT angiography (CCTA), Swedish ...

We found that high-volume exercise (>3,000 MET-min/week) was associated with a greater burden of subclinical coronary atherosclerosis — measured by coronary artery calcium score and coronary CT ...

Jianbing Wang and Zhiyu Ling. Identifying Risk Factors for Native Coronary Atherosclerosis Progression After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. CVIA. 2024. Vol. 9 (1). DOI: 10.15212/CVIA.2024.0033 ...

‘Coronary atherosclerosis does not lead to elevated troponin levels in the blood.’ Cause in the heart muscle? With completion of this large-scale investigation, the TREAT study, one hypothesis for ...