A drug candidate, previously successful at treating severe fatty liver disease, reduces atherosclerosis—a primary driver of cardiovascular death worldwide—in large mammals, a study suggests. Real-time ...

An ongoing study spotlights the link between calcium deposits in the breast arteries and life-threatening heart risks.

Absence of muscle tissue in biopsy samples is common and associated with increased risk of death. In a small study, 50% of non-diabetic hemodialysis patients with elevated FGF-23 showed correlations ...

Heart disease and stroke are the world's two most deadly diseases, causing over 15 million deaths in 2016 according to the World Health Organization. A key underlying factor in both of these global ...

In the hemodialysis population, cardiovascular calcifications result from excess phosphate and calcium, as well as reduced activity of inhibitors of calcification, such as matrix Gla protein. Vitamin ...

The treatment of calcification largely depends on the cause and the location where the accumulation of calcium has occurred as well as the complications that arise as a result of the disorder. The ...

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, ...

The coronary artery supplies blood to the heart. If calcium builds up in the coronary artery, it can lead to coronary artery disease and increase a person’s risk of a heart attack. Calcium is the most ...

Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) have uncovered a link between cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease, revealing novel disease biomarkers and therapeutic targets ...

MANY authors 1–5 reporting on disseminated pulmonary calcification have suggested that this entity represented healed miliary tuberculosis even though a history suggestive of acute miliary ...