A coronary artery calcium scan is a quick and painless scan of the heart. Doctors are looking for calcium and plaque buildup ...

The Lawhuns hope their story encourages others to ask about calcium score screenings.

Healthy 67-Year-Old Takes $99 Heart Test, Turns Out He Needs Surgery 2 Days Later ...

The test can help assess your lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease. That, along with earlier treatment for high ...

The latest cholesterol guidelines include three new screening tests: coronary artery calcium, lipoprotein (a), and ...

Would you take care better of your heart health if you could actually see the ticking time bomb in your arteries?

The joint document, published simultaneously in the journals JACC and Circulation, addresses not just cholesterol, but a full range of blood lipids that contribute to atherosclerosis — the buildup of ...

An observational study shows the two factors to be independent predictors of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Measuring neurofilament light chain levels 48 hours after cardiac arrest can predict long-term cognitive impairment, ...

A Penn Medicine–led team has developed a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence system that interprets cardiac MRI scans with performance approaching expert clinicians. Trained on more than 300,000 ...

Results from the RAPID-MIRACLE trial have found, for the first time, that the widely used MIRACLE2 risk score can be applied ...