Among patients with suspected obstructive CAD, two simple models that include clinical risk factors both outperform the commonly used pretest probability (PTP) model when it comes to predicting the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A validated genome-wide polygenic risk score predicted clinically meaningful absolute risk for sudden arrhythmic ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. Although effective preventive treatments exist, these measures are often underutilized, in part because people don't ...

A new smartphone app called MyGeneRank has been developed by scientists at the Scripps Research Translational Institute. The app calculates a person’s genetic risk for coronary artery disease and ...

For patients with chest pain who are at low risk of acute coronary syndromes, a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score of zero rules out CAD and the need for revascularization in the vast majority of ...

Advanced coronary artery disease (CAD) worsens long-term survival in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), but pre-TAVR percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), guided by ...