Heart Scans

Physicians and parents alike are worried about obesity among young children. A study released today shows that obese and overweight children have the same plaque build up as 40-year-old adults do. This alarming fact is prompting cardiologists to urge young children to get their arteries and hearts Continue Reading

Researchers are saying that waist size of women may be more important to women as opposed to men in regards to heart disease and heart failure. Swedish researchers have said that another thing to add onto the list of problems linked to obesity is heart disease. Obese patients have always been told t ... Continue Reading

From Heisman Trophy winners to Hall of Famers, they all lined up to get heart scans. The NFL Player Care Foundation has launched a new program to promote comprehensive heart screening for players. 33 former and current NFL stars underwent scans earlier this month. Players have long denounced agai ... Continue Reading

Los Angeles is generally associated with high fashion, Hollywood, yoga, and all things healthy and trendy. But the most recent fad to take over the city of Angels is actually heart disease. Local health officials claim that obesity is the running problem in LA, similarly city officials and these re ... Continue Reading

People who have a reason to be concerned about the health of their heart should not wait to get testing as it is obviously better to find out sooner (as opposed to later) if there is indeed a medical issues in this part of the body. Preventive imaging may include tests as comprehensive as the heart ... Continue Reading

New studies show that performing an angioplasty directly after a person suffers from a heart attack is the best way to increase survival rates. Generally after a heart attack most patients are given medications that increase blood flow and ward off blood clots, then later they have angioplasty perfo ... Continue Reading

It's fairly obvious that heart scans save lives. After all, they check for problems in the heart which helps catch issues before they become fatal and also helps to determine treatment for problems. But did you know that heart scans may save more than lives? They may also save a significant amount o ... Continue Reading

The New York Times is publicising the dilemma with virtual heart scans. The idea of preventative heart scans, virtual colonoscopies and full body scans have been debated for years now by physicians. Many of these scans are becoming mainstream techniques for lung and colon cancer screening and prev ... Continue Reading

Infants with congenital heart diseases can safely be monitored using cardiovascular MRI scans according to a new study completed in Germany. The study confirmed that the use of the MRI scan to monitor these patients caused no problems or complications for the infants including those related to blood Continue Reading

In honor of February and Heart Awareness Month, I feel it is necessary to bolster heart disease awareness. In recent weeks many headlines are reporting the possible links from preventative body scans to cancer due to increased doses of radiation. However, for those of you at high-risk for heart di ... Continue Reading