Should You Get a Coronary Calcium Scan?

Should You Get a Coronary Calcium Scan?

When seemingly healthy, it’s natural question your own coronary and seek out ways predict—and hopefully prevent—a similar Coronary calcium scans have popularity the last as a way of calcium buildup the vessels of the heart—an indicator of potential arteriosclerosis, can be present even asymptomatic patients. But when heart attacks seem out Should You Get of nowhere, says cardiologist Dr. Hakim Namely, especially those exhibiting signs of heart like a treadmill stress or an angiogram. very low-risk patients—those with symptoms and risk coronary calcium scan, still with a few drawbacks, exposure and the medically Pandora’s box of discovering are probably harmless now have be further.

A 15-year study of nearly 5000 people has found an enlarged heart chamber is a better predictor of cardiac death than a widely used screening tool, the coronary artery calcium score. The result fuels an ongoing debate about the value of tests to gauge the risk of heart attack in people with no symptoms of heart disease. The new study ran a toothcomb over data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), a US trial of nearly 7000 people with no known heart problems that began in 2000. People aged 45-84 from coronary calcium scan communities including Baltimore, Chicago and Los Angeles received questionnaires and a battery of tests, such as cholesterol and blood sugar, then were followed for up to 15 years to see who got heart failure or heart attacks or died from heart disease. The authors of the current study were particularly interested in two of the more hi-tech tests that some of the MESA participants received. Led by Nadine Kawel-Boehm, from Kantonsspital Graubuenden in Chur, Switzerland, they carved out a subset of 4988 people who had CT scans to measure their coronary artery calcium score.

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