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    As with most technology, the cost of a coronary calcium score test (also known as a “heart scan” or the calcium score) is dropping, and doctors are more inclined to consider this useful diagnostic tool for women who may have a moderate risk for heart disease or whose heart disease risk is unclear. When my high-risk patients are not taking their cholesterol-lowering statin medicine, […]

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    CT scans are better at predicting a middle-aged person’s risk for a heart disease, such as a heart attack, than genetics, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study published May 23 in JAMA.

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    Wolters Kluwer Health - 2 year(s) ago

    JavaScript Error JavaScript has been disabled on your browser. You must enable it to continue. Here’s how to enable JavaScript in the following browsers: Internet Explorer From the Tools menu, select Options Click the Content tab Select Enable JavaScript Firefox From the Tools…

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    • Researchers at @CedarsSinai developed an #AI-driven tool that they believe can accurately predict which patients will develop #pancreaticcancer based on what #CTscan images revealed years before diagnosis: https://t.co/qSeRyk33md #oncnews https://t.co/vHqquso8lr

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    Recent findings published in JAMA Network Open validate a blood test that uses biomarkers to determine the severity of a traumatic brain injury and whether a CT scan is warranted. The blood test (Brain Trauma Indicator; Banyan Biomarkers) was approved by the FDA in 2018 for use in conjunction with clinical decision-making.

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