A recent randomized, double-blind controlled trial in patients with calcific aortic stenosis has found that coronary artery calcification is not reduced by daily statin treatment. Coronary artery ...

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 using ...

According to a new study published in JAMA ,calprotectin may serve as a mechanistically informed biomarker for ...

What is a coronary calcium scan ... In stage one, the artery walls take up materials like cholesterol and form plaques which ...

Primary- and secondary-prevention trials involving subjects with or at risk for coronary artery disease have previously demonstrated a beneficial effect of conventional-dose statin therapy.

Generating a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score requires a quick ... Heart Association Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol and the 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention ...

Having a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score of zero has generally ... The findings of the new study are important because as cholesterol-laden plaques in the heart's coronary arteries age ...

A new study has found that apolipoprotein B particle count and lipoprotein(a) count were critical indicators of risk for ...

A new study conducted at Cedars-Sinai reveals how the cholesterol-reducing drug evolocumab prevents heart attacks in people ...

In practice, the risk of developing dementia while on a statin may be lower than not being on a statin. But part of this is ...

A new study in the US aims to determine the best method to screen and evaluate patients who are at risk of developing coronary heart disease and which patients would benefit from taking a statin ...

A new study published in the journal of BMC Nephrology showed that in non-dialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, ...