In a recent paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association, [8] my colleagues and I applied cancer risk models to estimate the lifetime attributable risk of cancer from CTCA. Our risk models ...

A normal coronary angiogram does not always guarantee safety from a heart attack. Conditions like microvascular disease, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In patients with stable chest pain and intermediate pretest probability of CAD, risk for major adverse CV events ...

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Researchers have developed a bedside model of CAD risk factors among patients undergoing noncoronary cardiac surgery to help clinicians better identify which patients have a low risk ...

SEATTLE — If you've ever worried about your heart health but scared to undergo an invasive treatment to get it checked, there’s a test that offers answers without a hospital stay or surgery. Dr.

MONTREAL—Patients who experience acute kidney injury (AKI) after undergoing coronary angiography have more than double the long-term risk of dying and a 74% greater likelihood of being hospitalized ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although the lifetime risk of cancer associated with exposure to radiation from computerize tomographic (CT) coronary angiography is "non-negligible," the risk varies ...

MONTREAL, Canada—Incorporating coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) with quantitative coronary plaque analysis (QCPA) into the annual physical of firefighters allows for the early detection ...

Premenopausal women presenting with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are a unique and often underrecognized patient population. Although they are traditionally considered at lower cardiovascular risk ...

A growing body of evidence shows that heart attacks can occur even when angiograms look normal. Cardiologists explain MINOCA, ...