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High calcium score: I'm in shock
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Nov 4 2:36pm | Replies (214)Comment receiving replies
The calcified plaque is not the problem…the stuff they cannot see on the CT scan is. Keep up the healthy lifestyle and enjoy life. My CAC was nearly 1000 at age 57. I did the same, good diet, exercise but I have high Lp(a) - worse than LDL. I am still percolating at 62, but at a much slower pace. Get your Lp(a) checked and keep up the healthy lifestyle. Life is good.
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I am 76 with a 3600.
Wonder what it was at 50. No symptoms. Workout regularly. Eat well. Had chemo and radiation 12 years ago. My research shows that if you do not have symptoms you do not need to know whether you are 50%. Also, and more importantly, my research shows that if you have over 70% in the angiography and a stent is placed, it does not protect you from a heart attack anyway because soft plaque can come from anywhere and cause a heart attack. First, do others agree with this? I have a failed stress test, no symptoms, and see a cardiologist Aug 8 and I am thinking he will say no need for angiography and stenting since I have no symptoms and regularly workout. Second, and more important to you, is I am alive and well, so far, and have gotten to age 76...so quit worrying about it and go to a mostly plant based diet and get all the meds you can to get your cholesterol down. What I see is these CAC scores scaring all of us unnecessarily. The hard Calcium plaque is not the problem...its the soft. (By the way, a nationally syndicated column today, July 23, 2024, in "Dear Dr. Roach" is exactly on point saying the same things to a 69 year old with an 1100 CAC. Try to google it.)