As Heart Awareness Month unfolds, local cardiologist Dr. Khaled Khalaf sheds light on the significance of knowing your heart's calcium score and how testing can be beneficial.

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 buildup, a new study indicates.

A simple, noninvasive calcium score test can help detecting heart disease early, especially for those without symptoms. CT for calcium another way to understand cardiac risk.

A version of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) heart disease risk score that did not include race predicted heart disease risk just as well as the original version that includes race.

Researchers introduce Daily Heart Rate Per Step (DHRPS), a great metric that could provide more meaningful health data from your smartwatch than steps alone. ... try this heart efficiency score.

Using an innovative risk score assessment score, heart researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City say they can accurately predict whether patients being assessed for kidney transplant ...