Researchers found that peri-coronary adipose tissue attenuation (PCAT), a marker of coronary inflammation, is independently ...

More than 60 million American women have heart disease. "The statistics haven't improved enough," a women's heart doctor told ...

Atherosclerosis can create life-threatening blockages -- without you ever feeling a thing. Since we’re all at risk for coronary artery disease, it’s worth learning more about atherosclerosis.

Male athletes with high-volume exercise training have a higher burden of calcified plaque than male nonathletes, according to ...

Men who participate in high-volume endurance exercise have greater atherosclerotic risk vs. nonathletes and women who ...

Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events (PREVENT) risk score accurately identifies individuals with coronary artery calcium.

One of the most common signs of coronary artery disease is chest pain, also known as angina. This pain can feel like pressure ...

However, coronary artery calcification often occurs alongside atherosclerosis. Symptoms of atherosclerosis depend on the location of the plaque buildup. Coronary atherosclerosis, which occurs in ...

The field of coronary artery disease (CAD) has long been thirsty for biomarkers that do not just echo the standard modifiable risk factors—such as cholesterol and blood pressure—but offer fresh clues ...

Undaunted by skepticism, Ornish proceeded with a group of patients awaiting coronary artery bypass ... as his program successfully reversed atherosclerosis. With all this good news, it raises ...

Our opinion: At this point, we do not recommend changing exercise habits (including intensity) in asymptomatic athletes to reduce progression of coronary atherosclerosis, since current cross-sectional ...

Atherosclerosis is plaque buildup in the arteries. When it occurs in the arteries that supply blood to the heart, doctors call it coronary artery disease (CAD). Although high blood pressure ...