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Breast calcifications may raise risk of heart disease: Equal to rise in risk conferred by smoking. (Large Cohort Study).
ANAHEIM, CALIF. -- Breast calcifications on mammography are an independent predictor of increased risk for subsequent coronary heart disease, results of a large prospective study suggest.
The study included 16,330 women who underwent mammography as part of a multiphasic health checkup at two Northern California Kaiser Permanente medical centers from 1964 to 1973. They were then followed for a median of 20 and a maximum of 33 years, Dr. Carlos Inibarren reported at the annual scientific sessions of the American Heart Association.
Mammographic evidence of breast vascular calcification was present in 2.1% of women, ductal calcification in 0.70%, and both 0.05%. The presence of these findings increased markedly with advancing age at the time of mammography.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Breast calcifications may raise risk of heart disease: Equal to rise...