Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused

Post by egberts1 » Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 1:02 PM UTC

srameshc wrote: post #103

dreamcompiler wrote: post #47

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I'm sure your doc already told you this but chest pain while playing tennis that goes away quickly sounds more like angina than a heart attack. IOW your episode was not a heart attack but rather a strong indicator that a future heart attack was likely and that further tests were warranted. A real heart attack (MI) -- the kind that can kill you quickly -- is usually not exercise related and the pain continues for many…

Since you mentioned take asprin, just curious , how does that help ?

Post by IAmGraydon » Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 1:12 PM UTC

Mistletoe wrote: post #70

IAmGraydon wrote: post #46

CAC is pretty common, but I prefer Coronary CT Angiography, which is much more detailed CT of the heart and coronary arteries using IV contrast. It's a bit more radiation, but it shows soft plaque and arterial narrowing, which CAC does not.

How do you get one and what is the cost?

Post by magicalhippo » Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 1:21 PM UTC

srameshc wrote: post #103

dreamcompiler wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure your doc already told you this but chest pain while playing tennis that goes away quickly sounds more like angina than a heart attack. IOW your episode was not a heart attack but rather a strong indicator that a future heart attack was likely and that further tests were warranted. A real heart attack (MI) -- the kind that can kill you quickly -- is usually not exercise related and the pain continues for many…

Since you mentioned take asprin, just curious , how does that help ?

Post by anonymars » Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 1:28 PM UTC

justlikereddit wrote: post #75

crdioptnt wrote: post #26

The first sign of trouble was chest pains while playing tennis. The pain subsided after a couple of minutes and I was fine. EKG showed no sign of heart attack or major blockage. Prior to that I had no symptoms whatsoever, exercised regularly, never smoked, 57yo male, 6 ft, 175lbs. A CAC scan revealed a calcium score of 411 and a stress test indicated a major lack blood flow to the front of the heart. A cardiac cathet…

>when I had absolutely no symptoms Chest pain during excretion is a symptom in my book. >Recommend everyone to get it A calcium scan is a ECG gated CT scan(a heart CT). It takes time from the CT machine schedule and it requires radiologists to describe it, meaning it's not infinitely accessible.

Post by shlant » Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 1:31 PM UTC

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I don’t understand why some prople claim that diet does not impact cholesterol. I did ‘keto’ with bacon/steak/chicken/etc for 3 months, got bloodwork done before and after and my LDL went through the roof.

Years ago I also experienced very high LDL after a few months of low carb. A doctor was convinced it was genetic (familial hypercholesterolemia) even though multiple earlier tests over the years had been in the normal range. He had never heard of low carb cholesterol hyper responders and dismissed that diet could have to do with it. Nowadays I am convinced that what happened was completely explainable by the Lipid En…