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Getting annual mammogram might help you prevent heart disease and stroke, these are important things you must know.
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You might ask yourself, what does a mammogram have to do with heart disease or a stroke.
I speak often about this association with my female patients in order to give them another motivation to get their yearly mammogram. The first time I wrote about this association was in 2012. At that time, I presented a study that suggested patients whose mammograms showed calcified arteries were more than three times as likely to develop heart disease and four times as likely to have a stroke in the five-year period after the mammogram.
Listen to this week’s podcast and learn about the following,
- How does mammography work?
- What are the different types of mammography?
- How getting a mammogram might help predict heart disease and stroke
- Take home message (don’t miss this one)
Here are the links to the studies discussed in this podcast,
Margolies L, Salvatore M, Hecht HS, et al. Digital Mammography and Screening for Coronary Artery Disease. J Am Coll Cardiol Img. 2016;9(4):350-360. doi:10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.10.022.
Hendriks EE, Beulens JJ, Mali WM, et al. Breast Arterial Calcifications and Their Association With Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: The Prospect-EPIC Cohort. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015;65(8):859-860. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2014.12.015.
Schnatz PF, Marakovits KA, O’Sullivan DM. The association of breast arterial calcification and coronary heart disease. Obstet Gynecol. 2011 Feb;117(2 Pt 1):233-41. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e318206c8cb.
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