When it comes to heart health, prevention is the name of the game. Cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes are more ...

BOUNTIFUL — Andra Lalli, 65, leads an active lifestyle. She enjoys going to the gym and has taught fitness classes for years — which is why when she went in for a heart scan, her results were ...

Cardiologists say many adults overlook a simple test that can detect early signs of heart disease.

When it comes to heart health, most people rely on the usual suspects , cholesterol numbers, blood pressure readings, maybe a stress test if things look off. But what if there’s a scan that could tell ...

One in five deaths in the U.S. is due to heart disease, according to federal health experts. A computerized scan of the heart ...

The image on the left shows where the heart is typically located in the body (A). The middle image shows the area of the coronary calcium scan image (B). The image on the right shows a coronary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doctor looking at heart treatment If you could prevent yourself from having a heart attack, would you do it? It sounds like a ...

BLOOM (TAMPA) – Eric Shuman, the Director of Operations for Life Guard Imaging, joins Gayle Guyardo, the host of Bloom, to discuss heart attack prevention with Coronary Calcium Scans. From their full ...

Coronary artery calcium (CAC) CT scans are becoming a more commonly used tool to effectively determine a patient’s future risk of heart disease and heart attack. These minimally invasive scans measure ...

Major medical organizations updated the cholesterol playbook for the first time in years, with new risk tools, lower targets and earlier treatment recommendations.