Routine mammograms are a critical tool for breast cancer screening. However, they may also hold crucial, potentially untapped ...

An ongoing study spotlights the link between calcium deposits in the breast arteries and life-threatening heart risks.

A coronary calcium scan can reveal what’s going on inside the arteries in an easily accessible and inexpensive manner. So, ...

Soft and hard plaque are two different forms of fatty build-up inside your arteries, and both can quietly damage your heart ...

You must have heard about clogged arteries or atherosclerosis? This is a condition where plaque – a waxy substance made of ...

In a new study of more than 40,000 patients, researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City have found that patients who have no evidence of calcium in their coronary arteries are not only ...

The coronary artery supplies blood to the heart. If calcium builds up in the coronary artery, it can lead to coronary artery disease and increase a person’s risk of a heart attack. Calcium is the most ...

Heart disease is not directly inherited which means you won’t inherit a heart attack. However, it’s common to inherit tendencies that contribute to heart disease caused by clogging of the arteries, ...

Coronary artery calcium scoring with CT can identify symptomatic patients with a very low risk of heart attacks or strokes, according to a new study published today in Radiology, a journal of the ...

The condition that mammograms can detect — and act as an early warning of heart problems down the road — is called breast arterial calcification, said Matthew Nudy, an assistant professor of medicine ...

Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of Americans. In the United States, it's estimated that someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds. These are scary statistics, but there's one test that can give ...

After analyzing 10 years of medical tests on more than 2,700 people in a federally funded heart disease study, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and elsewhere conclude that taking calcium in the ...