Breast Arterial Calcification and Cardiovascular Disease – Exploring mechanisms and outcomes.

心脏病仍然是西方世界女性的主要死因，目前筛查女性心脏病的方法过时且不准确。乳房动脉中的钙化可以通过筛查乳房X光检查来诊断，这与未来的心脏病有关。这可能代表了一种独特的方式来筛查和治疗心脏病患者，而不需要额外的测试，我们的研究计划旨在调查这一点。

Heart disease remains the major of cause of death in women in the Western world and current methods of screening women for heart disease are out-dated and inaccurate. Calcification in the breast arteries that can be diagnosed on screening mammograms has been associated with future heart disease. This may represent a unique way to screen and treat patients for heart disease without the need for additional testing and our research program aims to investigate this.