Mammograms: Detecting more than breast cancer, may help assess heart risk in kidney disease patients

Friday, January 21, 2011 - 14:50 in Health & Medicine

Routine mammograms performed for breast cancer screening could serve another purpose as well: detecting calcifications in the blood vessels of patients with advanced kidney disease, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN)...

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