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High Coronary Calcium Score: How do others feel emotionally?

Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Feb 13 9:01am | Replies (640)
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@keithl56

hi @ochip

All of the lifestyle changes and meds are meant to reduce your risks of having a cardiac event, they have no bearing on lowering the calcium score. Actually once you are diagnosed with CAD due to a high calcium score there is little merit in repeated CT tests. Just as important as your total score is where you are in percentile for your age group. Just concentrate on controlling the factors that are within your power and be vigilant.

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ochip | @ochip | Oct 21, 2018

Thank you Keith. @keith156. I'm just having a hard time understanding this. The higher your score, the greater chance of having an event. All the control factors, including eating right, controlling weight, exercising and taking medication have no affect at all on your score and in all the cases mentioned above, the score will continue to increase over time which just means your risk will only increase over time compared to your peers. One would think that if a high score was caused by bad habits before, that completely changing those habits would, at least, stop things from getting worse.

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