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Your breasts may offer clues about your heart health

from Harvard Health

Your breasts may offer clues about your heart health Harvard Health Your mammogram could offer a glimpse at more than just the health of your breasts. It may also provide important clues about your heart. When a radiologist reads a mammogram, she or he sometimes sees little white streaks that look like lines of chalk inside the arteries of your breast. These lines are actually deposits of calcium called arterial calcifications. If you have them, it could mean that you have similar deposits in other arteries inside your body, including those that bring blood to your heart muscle — a known risk factor for heart disease. READ MORE

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