A new AI tool can rapidly detect hidden cardiovascular and fall risks in older adults using routine bone scans by identifying ...

Highlights: Artificial intelligence identifies hidden heart disease risk in routine bone scans Abdominal aortic calcification is a stronger fracture predictor than bone density Vascular health ...

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

Since calcification happens over time ... severe abdominal and back pain. A rare diagnosis—an abdominal aortic dissection—led her to University of Utah Hospital, where a custom-built stent graft saved ...

The beneficial blood pressure–lowering effect of renal denervation in addition to standardized stepped‐care antihypertensive treatment is more pronounced in patients with resistant hypertension and a ...

Increasing evidence suggests micronutrient intake (essential minerals and vitamins) is associated with abdominal aortic calcification (AAC), which is an advanced marker of CVD. However, the existing ...

Background: Abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) is one of the earliest observed forms of atherosclerotic calcification and is crucial for early cardiovascular risk prediction. Frailty, a global ...

This study aims to explore the association between eGDR and the risk of abdominal aortic calcification (AAC). Methods: We utilized data from adult participants (≥40 years old, n=3006) from the ...

Of this sample, 997 had phenotyping of EPC-related traits at the eighth examination and had undergone assessment of CAC and abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) by multidetector CT between the seventh ...