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)...