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Mashup Score: 1Do I Need a Coronary Calcium Score? - 6 month(s) ago
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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Mashup Score: 15CT scan best at predicting heart disease risk in middle age - 10 month(s) ago
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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CT scan best at predicting heart disease risk in middle age https://t.co/rAPbhdQ4XH via @medical_xpress Huge DATA to discuss with @megynkelly
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AbstractAims. While the number of patients with stable coronary artery disease (SCAD) is similar across European countries, Germany has the highest per capita v
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Mashup Score: 0Buzz kill: Lung damage looks worse in pot smokers - 1 year(s) ago
Emphysema was significantly more common among marijuana smokers (75%) than among nonsmokers, a new study finds.
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The addition of thoracic CT scans during follow-up, which included clinic visits and chest x-rays after surgery, did not result in longer survival among patients with NSCLC. However, it did enable the detection of more cases of early recurrence and second primary lung cancer, which are more amenable to curative-intent treatment, supporting the use of CT-based follow-up, especially in countries…
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The addition of thoracic CT scans during follow-up, which included clinic visits and chest x-rays after surgery, did not result in longer survival among patients with NSCLC. However, it did enable the detection of more cases of early recurrence and second primary lung cancer, which are more amenable to curative-intent treatment, supporting the use of CT-based follow-up, especially in countries…
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Mashup Score: 3Wolters 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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Mashup Score: 2Artificial intelligence shows promise predicting patients’ need for CT after traumatic brain injury - 2 year(s) ago
Corresponding author Fatima A. Nasrallah, PhD, called the initial findings “promising” and believes AI has the potential to improve patient management in these scenarios while lessening the burden on physicians. “This model, if clinically implemented and validated, will aid decision making for clinicians and assist in reducing unnecessary…
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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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A study published Monday in the Journal of the American College of Radiology touts a significant increase in lung cancer screening rates after a program targeted patients in…
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What role does your calcium score play in your cardiovascular care? Get insights from cardiologist Dr. Postalian. Read more: https://t.co/z4eYKco3HR #calciumscore #ctscan #hearthealth https://t.co/7yMDtKwIud