The updated approach relies solely on CT imaging data and does not require a catheter. 

A cardiologist detected Sweeney’s condition during a mandatory checkup.

“Our message is simple: sit less and move more,” one researcher said. 

Patients who were evaluated by a cardiologist were much more likely to undergo stress testing, transthoracic echocardiography and coronary angiography.

“The clinical implications of this discovery are significant,” one researcher said. 

The analysis, published in the American Journal of Cardiology, included data from more than 741,000 adult patients with aortic stenosis. 

The hospital many consider the best prepared in the U.S. to handle a pandemic prior to the COVID crisis now finds itself “on an absolutely catastrophic path.”

The once-promising practice managed 16 or so locations across four markets at its height and had considered expanding to as many as 70, offering MR scans for a $600 flat fee.