Preventing heart disease now goes beyond routine cholesterol and blood pressure checks. Newer, more sophisticated tools can ...

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 ...

February is National Heart Month and a great time to make sure you’re doing everything you can to keep your ticker in top shape. There’s an inexpensive scan available that has proven effective to help ...

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 ...

Imagine being able to know whether plaque is building up in the arteries of your heart that could one day lead to a heart ...

SEATTLE — Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men and women in the US, and too often it goes undetected. 54-year-old Zac Lysen thought he was in good health, until a few events sparked his ...

While the danger of carrying too much fat around the waist and hips is well known, UVA Health scientists are developing a noninvasive way to assess the risks of fat surrounding the heart. The ...

A new heart scan is faster and has lower radiation exposure than MRI and invasive angiography, according to a study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging. Researchers compared three ...

University of Missouri School of Medicine and the School of Engineering have developed an AI-assisted model for MRI heart scans. The AI-assisted model, TagGen, can take low-quality images and make ...