How a coronary calcium scan assesses heart attack risk
Do you know your risk of coronary artery disease, the most common form of heart disease?
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Do you know your risk of coronary artery disease, the most common form of heart disease?
Feb 6, 2024
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When getting vaccines, switching arms for each dose may produce greater immunity than having the jabs delivered into the same arm.
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On Friday, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel addressed the ongoing issue of less accurate readings from pulse oximeters when used by individuals with darker skin.
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Alterations in the chemical modifications that control gene expression, known as epigenetics, have proven to be one of the most characteristic properties of all human tumors. This realization has generated the development ...
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Sleep apnea, which involves recurring, temporary interruptions of breathing during sleep, can disturb regulation of blood lipid levels, a key factor in the development of cardiovascular disease. A University of Ottawa research ...
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Researchers have found that adolescents being bullied by their peers are at greater risk of the early stages of psychotic episodes and in turn experience lower levels of a key neurotransmitter in a part of the brain involved ...
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Women with depressive symptoms during pregnancy may experience an alteration in the circadian rhythm of cortisol—a hormone that is necessary for fetal development—which could affect the course of pregnancy. Cortisol increases ...
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method to study liver function and disease without requiring invasive procedures. After transplanting liver cells into the eye of mice, the cornea can be used as a window ...
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A research team based at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) in Madrid and Aarhus University in Denmark has identified an important mechanism that can result in the regression, or shrinkage, of ...
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Stroke survivors living in areas with poor economic conditions were twice as likely to have a poor recovery compared to survivors living in areas with better conditions, according to a preliminary study to be presented at ...
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