{"id":598713,"date":"2026-08-28T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/598713\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T14:36:07","slug":"calcium-testing-for-heart-health-may-have-limited-value-for-many-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/598713\/","title":{"rendered":"Calcium testing for heart health may have limited value for many, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JZO6AJ3ZHVGZFIE7WURH3DBL3E\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">It\u2019s important to do <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2024\/05\/20\/heart-tests-echocardiograms-stress-test\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">certain regular screenings for heart health<\/a> and talk with your doctor about your risk for heart disease \u2014 it remains the number-one killer of both men and women in the United States. But one increasingly popular test, which checks for plaque in the arteries feeding the heart, may not provide much value for many people, <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2853347?\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new research shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s important to do certain regular screenings for heart health and talk with your doctor about your risk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46],"class_list":["post-598713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}