From Chicago, at a meeting of the Radiological Society of North America
Virtual colonoscopy, a scanning procedure designed to spot cancer-related growths in the colon, may offer a side benefit: identifying heart attacks that are waiting to happen. Radiologists at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., have found that ominous circulation-hampering calcium deposits in an abdominal artery are visible on colon scans.
Log in
Subscribers, enter your e-mail address for full access to the Science News archives and digital editions.