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Article: STUDY SHOWS EBT PREDICTS CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE.(Imatron Inc.)(Brief Article)
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- Biotech Equipment Update
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Imatron Inc. (Nasdaq:IMAT) has announced that the American Heart Association highlighted a publication in its July 25, 2000 issue of Circulation, validating the accuracy of Imatron's EBT scanner in the prediction of heart disease. This important research finding clearly demonstrates significantly better test specificity (the ability to produce a normal result in those persons without cardiac disease) for the EBT coronary artery scan for calcification than had previously been thought.
The study, authored by Larry Bielak, MD, and colleagues in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, included 213 patients at high risk, ...