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Understanding your heart's calcium score, why it's important

If you're at risk of heart disease, you may want to find out your heart's calcium score. There are two primary tests for assessing calcium in the heart. An angiogram lets you know what's happening on ...
Rolling Out

Forget 10,000 steps, try this heart efficiency score

In a fitness world obsessed with counting steps, researchers have discovered a potentially game-changing way to interpret the data already collected by your smartwatch. The new measurement—Daily Heart ...
STAT

Risk scores accurately predicted heart attacks, study finds. With CT scans, they did even better

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. In what researchers hope could be a case of 1 + ...
The New York Times

To Prevent Heart Attacks, Doctors Try a New Genetic Test

Polygenic risk scores could help patients, including younger ones, understand whether they really need early treatment for heart disease. By Gina Kolata Gina Kolata has been reporting on heart disease ...