calcification
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A scan with significant calcification helps doctors and patients make a decision about whether they need to take a statin or other cholesterol-lowering medication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
She stated the actual cause of death was narrowing and "calcification of his coronary arteries due to old age".
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
For type 2 diabetes, the analyses show that so-called bad cholesterol plays a major role in carotid artery calcification, and that lower levels of triglycerides significantly reduce the risk of peripheral arterial disease.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024
Nevertheless, individuals who had large amounts of damaged teeth possessed higher rates of inflammation, brain tissue loss and aortic valve calcification.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024
With this inspissation there was frequently associated a partial fatty degeneration, and the cheesy matter represented dead material, which might undergo further changes, of which softening and calcification were the more important.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
“One of the reasons why clinicians use this is because there is data that shows when there are coronary calcifications patients are more likely to take medications and to adopt other preventive therapies,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
“No significant masses, calcifications or other findings are seen in either breast.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
The commercially available AI system used for screening was trained by deep learning models to highlight and rate suspicious lesions and calcifications within mammograms.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024
If Cespedes’s assertion on Friday is true — that painful calcifications in his heels cause his chronic leg problems, and only surgery can fix it — he should not be playing.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2018
Flesh inside the cracked opened shells was examined by clammers who hoped to find roundish, calcifications that had formed over little grains of sand.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2015
