VIENNA, Austria — Calcification in large vessel beds, identified on computerized tomography (CT), is associated with a global cognitive decline in otherwise healthy people, according to a ...

Vascular Calcification and Bone Mineral Density in Recurrent Kidney Stone Formers. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology , 2015; DOI: 10.2215/CJN.06030614 E. N. Taylor.

Calcification detected in one-fifth of study subjects In the study, carotid artery calcification was found in 102 patients (20.7%), with 81 (16.4%) of the cases determined as moderate and 21 (4.3% ...

More calcification after statin therapy might reflect plaque stabilization, so calcium scores may be less useful for risk stratification once patients have been on the drugs, experts say.