Researchers found that peri-coronary adipose tissue attenuation (PCAT), a marker of coronary inflammation, is independently ...

We propose an approach to risk stratification based on these ... the time of the first cardiac event was younger in male patients than in female patients (13±9 vs. 20±14 years, P<0.001).

Guidelines recommend risk stratification of patients with chronic CAD using functional testing and invasive or coronary CT angiography, but, Wereski et al note, more than half of MIs occur in patients ...

The mortality rate among patients with coronary artery disease, abnormal ventricular ... The usefulness of electrophysiologic testing for risk stratification in these patients is unclear.

"This suggests that female sex should not be included as an independent stroke/TE risk factor in guidelines or in risk stratification schemes used in treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation.