Mammograms may not be solely for detecting breast cancer anymore -- they may also lead to detection of heart disease. Calcifications may be detected in the arteries of the heart during routine mammograms. Essentially, this indicates hardening of the arteries and can be a sign of heart disease. This is nothing new, really -- doctors have long thought that hardening of breast arteries relate to heart disease. But this relationship had never really been studied -- until recently. Several large studies and many smaller ones have shown a correlation between these vascular calcifications on arteries in the breast because of the similar size to the arteries in the heart. And this correlation revealed itself for one woman -- Bunnie Gleiman -- when she went for her annual mammogram and learned that she had these calcifications on the arteries in her breast. She says her mammogram saved her life -- but not from breast cancer. Now on medications for cholesterol and blood pressure, Bunnie reports that she is happy and healthy. Thanks to her mammogram.