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Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/drhowardsmithreports/reel/DH9SFeIs78Z/Women under 60 years of age with the most significant calcium buildup in their breast arteries, compared with those who had the least, were 2.8 times more likely to die from cardiac disease within a 5 year period.  This from an Emory University and Mayo Clinic collaborative study of 56,000 mammograms presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session.Visualizing calcium plaques in breast arteries seen on cancer-screening mammograms can incidentally predict cardiovascular disease.  Other studies have shown that such calcium deposition in the breast arteries breast arteries is associated with a 51% higher risk of not only heart disease but also stroke.The AI model looked at the severity of breast artery calcification and divided women into 3 groups. Then it analyzed the incidence of heart attack, heart failure, and stroke for each group.  Greater levels of calcification was associated with risk of these diseas