Using data from a national study, Johns Hopkins researchers determined that using heart CT scans can help personalize treatment in patients whose blood pressure falls in the gray zone of just above ...

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) CT scans are becoming a more commonly used tool to effectively determine a patient's future risk of heart disease and heart attack. These minimally invasive scans measure ...

Dear Savvy Senior,I just turned 58, and heart disease runs in my family. My cholesterol has been creeping up, and I’ve been ...

A standard cardiac CT scan enhanced with a delayed imaging phase can detect both visible scarring and subtle, widespread damage in the heart muscle. By combining two markers—Late Iodine Enhancement ...

Heart disease is a nasty enough problem. It would be nice if the tests you have to go through just to get your diagnosis didn’t cause so much unpleasantness of their own. Now they may not have to, ...

Kumamoto University researchers discover that combining two advanced heart imaging techniques can predict life-threatening cardiovascular events with high accuracy. A routine heart scan might soon do ...

CAC scoring is one of the strongest predictors of future heart attacks, and it adds predictive information beyond what traditional risk calculators provide. Dedicated cardiac CT scans can measure this ...

In recent years, radiologists in the city have noticed a concerning trend: a significant rise in the number of people opting for cardiac CT scans following the sudden deaths of young celebrities. This ...

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) CT scans are becoming a more commonly used tool to effectively determine a patient’s future risk of heart disease and heart attack. These minimally invasive scans measure ...

SAVVY SENIOR: Cholesterol numbers have been the main way to estimate heart disease risk for years. But there’s another tool ...

Recently, a patient came to the hospital where I work with a persistent cough. Their doctor had ordered a CT scan – a type of imaging that creates detailed cross-sectional pictures of the body’s ...