Heart disease and stroke are the world's two most deadly diseases, causing over 15 million deaths in 2016 according to the World Health Organization. A key underlying factor in both of these global ...

Abdominal aortic calcification scores assessed using densitometric lateral spine images at the time of bone mineral density testing may identify older women at higher risk for atherosclerotic vascular ...

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — Breast arterial calcification measured during mammography is a readily available surrogate marker of atherosclerotic CVD and may predict subclinical CAD and microvascular ...

A drug candidate, previously successful at treating severe fatty liver disease, reduces atherosclerosis—a primary driver of cardiovascular death worldwide—in large mammals, a study suggests. Real-time ...

Building on prior research on vascular calcification in the mummified remains of ancient people, the Horus Study Group has now made a similar discovery in Inuit people who lived on the Greenlandic ...

The presence of breast arterial calcification, easily detected on standard mammography but typically considered inconsequential in breast cancer screening, shows significance as a possible marker of ...

Prior to 1990, many assumed that once cholesterol plaques form in the arteries causing atherosclerosis, it was not reversible. While this is true for plaques that have calcified, what about plaques in ...

A groundbreaking 3D, three-layer nanomatrix vascular sheet that possesses multiple features of atherosclerosis has been applied for developing a high-throughput functional assay of drug candidates to ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A groundbreaking 3D, three-layer nanomatrix vascular sheet that possesses multiple features of atherosclerosis has been applied for developing a high-throughput functional assay of ...