Archive for February 14th, 2009

Measuring Calcium in Arteries Could Improve Heart Disease Prediction

Dr Tamar S. Polonsky, of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, and colleagues found that a score based on the calcium amount present in coronary arteries with the traditional factors are taken into account when assessing heart disease risk. It improved the prediction of risk and put more individuals in the most extreme [...]