Meanwhile, between the years 2000 and 2012, participants visited study clinics several times to undergo CT scanning to determine the
amount of calcium deposits in their heart arteries.
Lewis competed in pain most of last year
because of a calcium deposit on his left knee, and he dealt privately with the discovery of cancer in his father.
The figure shows calcium deposits in the hearts of mice (A, D) and the effect of two drugs, ARL67156 (B, E) and etidronate (C, F), in decreasing the
extent of calcium deposits after heart injury.
Our ancestors going back thousands of years show signs of atherosclerosis, as suggested by modern research using CT to detect
evidence of calcium deposits associated with atherosclerotic plaques in the arteries of mummies as old as 5,000 years.
Research has demonstrated that its function in our blood vessels is to prevent the build
up of calcium deposits.
Depending on the case, your veterinarian may submit a small part of the mass (biopsy) or the whole lump, either to confirm the
diagnosis of calcium deposits or to rule out local cancers.