Hi windy, I had a cac done and it's called "ct heart w qualitative eval of coronary calcium" in my patient portal. Basically it gives me a calcium score of my coronary arteries, and mine showed a score of 38 at my lad, the main of the 3 coronary arteries. My cardiologist didn't really want to do this test because they'd already seen the mild calcification from my chest ct but I insisted and wanted to know my score. It is said that if one is on statin treatment, the score could be artificially raised a little bit.

Your cardiologist probably is thinking about a CTA (CT coronary angiogram) test for you, which needs a contrast. This is the more accurate yet non-invasive way to know whether or not one or more coronary arteries are diseased due to any soft or hardened plaques. Sometimes a person could have a 0 cac score but could have many soft plaques resulting more than 70% of blockage, which usually starts to give symptoms. So CTA is better at evaluating any blockage of coronary arteries due to soft AND hard plaques.