The odds of surviving cardiac arrest may depend on which part of town you call home and whether anyone in the neighborhood comes to your rescue by attempting to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), according to a first-of-its-kind study in the June issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. Continue reading ‘Your Neighborhood Determines Your Chance of Surviving Cardiac Arrest’
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Use of a score based on the amount of calcium in coronary arteries in addition to traditional risk factors improved the classification of risk for prediction of coronary heart disease events, and placed more individuals in the most extreme risk categories, according to a study in the April 28 issue of JAMA.
The coronary artery calcium score (CACS; determined by Continue reading ‘Calcium CT Scan is Better at Predicting Heart Attacks Than Lipid Blood Test’
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