Get Hawaii’s latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You “It’s a CT scan that is available ... attack ...

In 2006 a consensus statement of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association recommended against CT calcium scoring in asymptomatic individuals. More recently a modest role ...

Generating a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score requires a quick CT scan, with no intravenous (IV) access or IV contrast required. Results are available within minutes. The CT scan reliably ...

Having a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score of zero has generally been accepted as a marker of a very low risk of having a ...

A study compares traditional risk assessments with coronary artery calcium scoring to determine statin prescriptions for ...

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 ... a PET/CT scan, which quantifies ...

Published in the journal JAMA, it found the Coronary Artery Calcium Score (CACs ... cardiologist Professor Tom Marwick said CACs were a CT scan of a person’s heart to flag calcium, which ...