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Weekly JAMA Feature for April 27
CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE AIDS PHYSICIANS IN BETTER CLASSIFYING HEART DISEASE RISKS
JAMA RADIO REPORT
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
This week’s package has an embargo: 4pm(ET) Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
April 27, 2010
VO: STANDARD TESTS INCLUDING BLOOD PRESSURE AND CHOLESTEROL LEVELS CAN HELP PHYSICIANS PREDICT A HEALTHY PERSON’S LOWER OR HIGHER RISK FOR DEVELOPING HEART DISEASE. FOR THOSE IN BETWEEN, THESE TESTS ALONE MAY NOT BE ENOUGH. A NEW STUDY SHOWS ADDING AN X-RAY TEST DETECTING CALCIUM LEVELS IN THE ARTERIES OF THE HEART MAY AID PHYSICIANS IN BETTER CLASSIFYING A PERSON’S RISK.
“The coronary calcium score moved about a quarter of that group to lower risk and it elevated the risk prediction of about another quarter to higher.”
VO: DR. PHILIP GREENLAND FROM NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED CALCIUM SCORES OF MORE THAN 68 HUNDRED PARTICPANTS OF VARIOUS RACES AND ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS FROM JULY 2000 TO MAY 2008. THEY WERE 45 TO 84 YEARS OLD AND HAD NO DETECTABLE HEART OR BLOOD VESSEL DISEASE. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“This is a test that should be used in the medical setting, ordered by a doctor, this is a test that might help reduce the uncertainty and help make a clinical decision.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
April 27, 2010
VO: STANDARD TESTS INCLUDING BLOOD PRESSURE AND CHOLESTEROL LEVELS CAN HELP PHYSICIANS PREDICT A HEALTHY PERSON’S LOWER OR HIGHER RISK FOR DEVELOPING HEART DISEASE. FOR THOSE IN BETWEEN, THESE TESTS ALONE MAY NOT BE ENOUGH. A NEW STUDY SHOWS ADDING AN X-RAY TEST DETECTING CALCIUM LEVELS IN THE ARTERIES OF THE HEART MAY AID PHYSICIANS IN BETTER CLASSIFYING A PERSON’S RISK.
“The coronary calcium score moved about a quarter of that group to lower risk and it elevated the risk prediction of about another quarter to higher.”
VO: DR. PHILIP GREENLAND FROM NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED CALCIUM SCORES OF MORE THAN 68 HUNDRED PARTICPANTS OF VARIOUS RACES AND ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS FROM JULY 2000 TO MAY 2008. THEY WERE 45 TO 84 YEARS OLD AND HAD NO DETECTABLE HEART OR BLOOD VESSEL DISEASE. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“This is a test that should be used in the medical setting, ordered by a doctor, this is a test that might help reduce the uncertainty and help make a clinical decision.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.