The breakthrough could enable earlier, more comprehensive diagnoses during routine osteoporosis screenings, particularly ...

Abdominal aortic calcification is one of the earliest indicators of atherosclerotic calcification and is vital in predicting ...

Limited research has explored this relationship in middle-aged men. Aortic calcification (AC) is a novel biomarker for aortic atherosclerosis. This study aimed to examine whether baseline BMD is ...

Objective Examine if two inexpensive measures of atherosclerotic vascular diseases (ASVD), abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) and high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) provide complementary ...

The aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body, carrying oxygen-rich blood from the heart to every organ and tissue. It begins at the left ventricle, extends upward through the chest to form an ...

X-ray examination showed a generally enlarged ... but it seems fairly certain that the slight calcification of the aortic valves accounted for the cardiac auscultatory findings.

In a population study of 4500 elderly patients, an inverse relationship was demonstrated between dietary intake of menaquinone and aortic calcification, myocardial infarction, and sudden ...

As many as 100,000 Australians are believed to be living with a severe form of aortic stenosis. The condition involves a narrowing and calcification of the aortic valve, making it difficult to pump ...

which is originally used to evaluate the extent of coronary calcification (30). Similar to the evaluation of coronary arteries, calcified areas with density above 130 HU (Hounsfield units) of aorta ...