A Better Method for Predicting Coronary Artery Disease

Sudden cardiac death causes about half of the roughly 500,000 cardiovascular deaths that happen every year in the US. The vast majority of these deaths are due to coronary artery disease (CAD). Although there are treatments that can prevent mortality, many people never use them because they don’t know there is a problem. But scientists have now created a better method for predicting CAD compared to current methods. When it was developed, the method…