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.

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 ...

A novel automated score that calculates both the dispersion and density of coronary artery calcium (CAC) seems to improve upon the predictive powers of the commonly used Agatston score for estimating ...

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%.

I have low serum cholesterol but a high coronary calcium score, and I was told to take magnesium supplements to bring my ...

A high calcium score does not mean that there are blockages inside the blood vessels as calcium can only be in the outer layer of the blood vessels. However, with a calcium score over 400 and at age ...

Also, we didn't take into account family history," he said. So, again for reasons unclear, he got a calcium score. Surprise! It was 347, which led to a short tutorial from the podium.

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 ...

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 ...