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This study involving 2 large, community-based, longitudinal, cohort studies whether adding 2 markers—coronary artery calcium score and polygenic risk score—to t
CT scans are better at predicting a middle-aged person’s risk for a heart disease, such as a heart attack, than genetics, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. Conventional measures of risk factor levels include blood pressure and cholesterol. Scientists had hoped genetics could better predict risk than conventional measure, but only when considering CT scan, half the study participants moved into the high-risk group.
Sleep apnea tests may underestimate severity in Black patients, according to research published at the ATS 2023 International Conference.
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The prevalence of three pathophysiological traits used to identify patients with sleep apnea differs according to BMI, sex, age and race/ethnicity, according to study results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.“The present community-based study shows that endotypic traits for sleep apnea vary with age, sex, race/ethnicity, and obesity and provides the largest collection of