Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Biobank data suggest targeted polygenic risk score testing in younger adults with borderline or intermediate ...

The presence of breast arterial calcification may serve as a biomarker for an increased risk of cardiovascular disease among postmenopausal women. New research published in Circulation: Cardiovascular ...

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) screening can help identify patients without atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) who may benefit from aspirin, provided they are at low risk for bleeding and ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. This study aimed to examine whether integrating risk-enhancing factors into the Chinese Society of ...

The 2019 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, recently released at the ACC Scientific Session in New Orleans, ...

ASCVD Risk Estimator Plus and PREVENT calculator would have classified many patients as low risk 48 hours before MI. (HealthDay News) — Population-based cardiac screening tools fail to identify many ...

"One of the greatest values in doing coronary calcium scoring is that in about half of those scanned for appropriate reasons, calcium scores of zero (no hardening in the walls of the arteries) will be ...

New risk equations can help determine the need for a first coronary artery calcium (CAC) scan in young adults to identify those most at risk for premature atherosclerosis, researchers say. "To our ...

Whether to measure Lp(a), a lipoprotein associated with increased cardiovascular risk, and how to use that information in risk assessment is a hot topic in cardiovascular medicine. The American Heart ...