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Illustration of heart risk tools failing to detect hidden arterial plaque in a patient, highlighting study findings on screening limitations.
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Study: Heart-attack risk tools fail to flag nearly half of future patients

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A Mount Sinai–led study finds that commonly used heart-attack risk calculators and symptom-based screening fail to identify nearly half of people who will soon experience a first heart attack. The brief report, published November 21 in JACC: Advances, underscores limitations in current prevention strategies and argues for earlier imaging to detect silent plaque.

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