US coastal waters heavily polluted with microplastics may be linked to a significantly higher risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, a study found.

Anderson JJB, et al. (2016). Calcium intake from diet and supplements and the risk of coronary artery calcification and its progression among older adults: 10‐year follow‐up of the Multi ...

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.

Coronary artery calcification The study, which has been published in the journal Sleep Medicine , involved 771 men and women aged between 50 and 64, all of whom are part of the larger population ...

One standard deviation increase in apoB-P translated to a 33% greater risk of developing coronary artery disease. In the SIMPLER population, this same increase translated to a 26% increase in risk ...

Abstract and Introduction. Hypertension, dyslipidemia, impaired glucose tolerance, and obesity remain the major modifiable risk factors for most of the coronary disease afflicting the elderly.

Study participants with the highest urinary metal levels tended to also have the highest coronary artery calcium (CAC), reported Katlyn McGraw, PhD, of Columbia University Mailman School of Public ...

However, a new approach to determining risk and selecting a statin is the use of the coronary artery calcium (CAC) score, which is determined by taking a low-radiation dose image of the heart ...

Researchers found that coronary atherosclerosis is prevalent in asymptomatic, middle-aged US adults without traditional ASCVD risk factors, and increases with higher levels of LDL-C, non-HDL-C ...

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 buildup, a new study indicates.