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No Plaque, No Problem: Tackling Atherosclerosis Prevention

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

Enhancing Adherence: Simplify treatment plans and build trust through patient education. What’s Next: Solutions for a Healthier Future To overcome these challenges, we need a coordinated, multipronged approach, including: Expanding Research: Dive deeper into SMuRFless MI and emerging risk factors.

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HeartFlow Initiates DECIDE Registry to Evaluate Utility of HeartFlow AI-Enabled Plaque Analysis for Patients with Suspected Coronary Artery Disease

DAIC

The registry will collect multi-site, real-world information on how the Plaque Analysis product provides enhanced patient insights, empowering physicians and helping to inform their medical management decisions for patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). 2 “Data from the DECODE study shows the value of using Plaque Analysis.

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Including educational status may improve cardiovascular risk calculations such as SCORE2

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

BackgroundThe association between education and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) has been well described for decades. Nevertheless, most cardiovascular risk models, including SCORE2, still do not take educational status into account even if this factor is easily assessed and costs nothing to acquire. 2.06; and 0.0.63

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TCFA : The stylish caps of Atherosclerotic plaques are getting disproportionate attention.

Dr. S. Venkatesan MD

One of my colleagues was joking ,nowadays patients force us to read or even educate us. Doctor, do you have any investigation to know how much the total plaque burden is in my coronary artery? I recently read in Forbes Sunday health supplement, It says ,it is better to know the thickness of the cap covering the plaque.

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Adherence to phase I cardiac rehabilitation in post-PCI patients: a latent class analysis

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Numerous previous studies have shown that cardiac rehabilitation can inhibit the progression of atherosclerotic plaques in patients after coronary intervention, effectively controlling patients' clinical symptoms and improving their quality of life.

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SCCT Awards Best Original Science of 19th Annual Scientific Meeting

DAIC

Prior to the conference, an independent panel of judges led by Marcus Chen, MD selected two winners for the 18th Annual Canon Young Investigator Awards (YIA) in cardiovascular CT, sponsored by an educational grant from Canon Medical Systems, Inc. and the Ma Family, who provided a $5,000 case prize for the winner.

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Dyslipidemia in American Indian Adolescents and Young Adults: Strong Heart Family Study

Journal of the American Heart Association

We used carotid ultrasounds to detect plaque at baseline and follow‐up in 2006 to 2009 (median follow‐up=5.5 had incident plaque (109/1104 plaque‐free participants with baseline and follow‐up ultrasounds), 11.0% We evaluated SHFS participants, who were 15 to 39 years old at the baseline examination in 2001 to 2003 (n=1440).

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