Researchers can now assess a person’s risk of developing late-life dementia using data from a common type of bone density scan. The study revealed calcification within the abdominal aorta can ...

High Prevalence of Aortic Calcification in Older Women . According to research fellow Cassandra Smith, around 58% of older women undergoing routine bone scans showed moderate to high levels of AAC.

Researchers from Australia and Canada have developed a machine learning algorithm that spots heart disease and fracture risks using routine bone scans in under a minute.

Researchers obtained vertebral fracture assessment images from adults aged 70 years or older who had a bone mineral density T-score of –1.5 or lower at the lumbar spine, total hip or femoral ...

Radiological features Skull films. Calcification of the falx cerebri was the most consistent radiological feature and was observed in 65% individuals with NBCCS (Fig. 1 and Table 2).The frequency ...

Heart Calcification: Here’s Why The Heart Turns Into Bone And What Researchers Are Doing About It. By Dianne Depra Updated: Nov 21 2016, 17:51 PM EST .

Calcific diskitis (CD) is a rare condition characterized by inflammation and calcification of an intervertebral disk, typically causing localized back pain. We present the case of a 65-y-old woman ...

This calcium build-up, known as abdominal aortic calcification (AAC), is a hardening of the abdomen's largest artery, which can be identified early on a commonly used bone density machine scan.