"We found a strong association between abdominal aortic calcification and future cardiovascular events," said lead author Stacy D. O'Connor, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of radiology at the ...

Using widely available bone density machines, and without the need for invasive testing, the researchers identified abdominal aortic calcification in about 60% of men and women, aged 60–80 years.

Simone Radavelli-Bagatini, Ph.D., from Edith Cowan University in Joondalup, Australia, and colleagues conducted abdominal aortic calcification and clinical assessments in 240 participants (57.5 ...

A machine learning algorithm can assess abdominal aortic calcification level during a vertebral fracture assessment. The percentage of adults with major adverse CV events rose with higher ...

New research by Edith Cowan University (ECU) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Cassandra Smith noted that abdominal aortic calcification (AAC), a marker of advanced blood vessel disease, was linked ...

A new study published in Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases explores how coffee consumption affects the incidence of abdominal aortic calcification (AAC), comparing adults with ...

The Heart Foundation supported a study of 881 elderly women (median age of 80), which found they were far less likely to have extensive build-up of abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) if they ...

The abdominal aorta moves blood from the heart ... higher total non-tea flavonoid intake also appears to protect against extensive calcification of the arteries," Parmenter said.

The focus was on a biomarker called abdominal aortic calcification (AAC), a build-up of calcium in the body’s largest artery. AAC is currently used to predict a person’s risk of cardiovascular ...