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. However, age is a strong ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A coronary artery calcium (CAC) score of zero is a strong indicator of low risk for coronary events and death from any cause, regardless of age. This finding ...

to use a CAC score in the decision to withhold, postpone or initiate statin therapy: [Grundy SM, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018; 3b,4a; Arnett DK, et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019;20a] If the CAC ...

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The coronary artery calcium (CAC) score test measures the calcium buildup in heart arteries through a CT scan, indicating potential heart disease risk ...

Participants were then randomly assigned to CAC score-informed group or usual care. Those in the informed group received CAD education using their CT images and were prescribed lipid-lowering therapy.

All participants underwent CAC testing, and those with a score greater than 0 but less than 400 underwent ... to measure the effect on hard clinical endpoints. It might be time to use measurable ...

A significant percentage of patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) demonstrate coronary artery calcification (CAC) on imaging, with variations by ANCA ...

A new study by researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City aims to determine the best method to screen and evaluate patients who are at risk ...

A large new study of more than 40,000 patients from heart researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City finds that a zero coronary artery calcium score continues to be an accurate indicator of ...