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One significant change from 2001 was the initiation of Atorvastatin in 2001. The approximate annual increase was about 52%/yr in the first 10 years, 40%/yr in the next 7 years, and -1.3%/yr in the last 1.8 years. Guessing that much of the first 10+ years might have been catch up to stabilize the prior soft plaque built up over many years.
The thing is- all of this information is really not what is at the core of my coronary status or prognosis. CLEERLY seems to be the tool that can quantitatively show my disease status and help me understand what has been accomplished so far, and what might need to be done going forward. It's just hard to find cardiologists and/or imaging sources to perform the CLEERLY analysis. Also, want to have my 2020 CCTA analyzed, but same problem, no one has agreed to analyze.
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Agree - amount of calcified plaque would increase with statins. One could surmise that once the available plaque is reduced, there could be a flattening of the curve.
My understanding is that CLEERLY requires a different CT data set, so this forces one to their approved facilities/organizations ... this was the dead end I faced.