January 20, 2011 — Routine mammography may reveal an important, but difficult to detect, marker of possible cardiovascular risk in women with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), according to investigators ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Raman spectroscopy quantified the distribution of specific mineral species, proteins and lipids in aortic tissue ...

Breast arterial calcifications, which are medial calcifications of the breast arteries that often appear on mammograms, should be considered a risk factor for coronary artery disease in women, ...

Arterial calcification is a gradual and progressive process that is seen in most people after the 6th decade of life. This results in a reduction of arterial elasticity and an increased propensity for ...

Routine mammograms performed for breast cancer screening could serve another purpose as well: detecting calcifications in the blood vessels of patients with advanced kidney disease, according to a new ...

Logistic regression is the most cost-effective model for medial vascular calcification classification, with a mean ICER of $278 using five low-cost features. Despite similar diagnostic accuracy, ...

Vascular Calcification mortality non-dialysis CKD Calcification in the media of arteries may be a useful measure for screening. Vascular calcification (VC) is highly prevalent in non-dialysis patients ...

Breast arterial calcifications (BACs) are common findings on mammograms. There are calcium deposits in the media layer of the peripheral arterioles and this condition is called Mönckeberg medial ...

A new study published suggests that the connection between coronary artery calcification—a measure of calcium buildup in the arteries—and bone mineral density may be driven in part by shared genetic ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information by sharing relevant background and reasoning ...