Clinicians from both cardiology and primary care talked about the value of ongoing communication, respect to achieve ...

I recently had a CT scan of my chest and abdomen for pain, and they made a note that I also had coronary atherosclerosis.

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 ...

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

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

Understanding calcified coronary artery disease, its risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention for a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

This study was aimed at investigating factors influencing the progression of native coronary atherosclerosis after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). A cohort of 462 patients was classified ...

The underlying cause of nearly all heart attacks is clogging of the arteries with cholesterol (atherosclerosis ... even though one or more coronary arteries that feed the heart muscle are ...