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A new study suggests that CT scans used in conjunction with traditional risk markers can help doctors assess individual coronary heart disease risk more accurately than genetic testing in middle aged and older adults.
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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.
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The study gives evidence that the composition of the gut microbiota can be a major factor that leads to depression.