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 ...

Building on prior research on vascular calcification in the mummified remains of ancient people, the Horus Study Group has now made a similar discovery in Inuit people who lived on the Greenlandic ...

Prior to 1990, many assumed that once cholesterol plaques form in the arteries causing atherosclerosis, it was not reversible. While this is true for plaques that have calcified, what about plaques in ...

Although atherosclerosis is widely thought to be a disease of modern times, computed tomographic (CT) evidence of atherosclerosis has been found in the bodies of a large number of mummies. In a paper ...

The presence of breast arterial calcification, easily detected on standard mammography but typically considered inconsequential in breast cancer screening, shows significance as a possible marker of ...

A new study published in the American Heart Journal used spectroscopic imaging techniques to ‘see’ fatty plaques in the arteries of ancient mummies. This shows that the people of ancient times also ...

Athletes, paradoxically, have been shown to have more coronary atherosclerosis compared with their less-active peers—now new data hint that the amount of plaque, and its makeup, may vary by sport. In ...

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — Breast arterial calcification measured during mammography is a readily available surrogate marker of atherosclerotic CVD and may predict subclinical CAD and microvascular ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Over 18 years, more women with breast arterial calcifications on mammography developed heart disease vs. those ...

CHICAGO – Older patients with atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), are more likely to have symptoms of depression, according to an article in the April issue of The Archives of General ...