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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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@tim1028

I was told by my Cardiologist that the risk of doing invasive cardiogram outweighs the benefits. In other words there is nothing I would do differently based on the cardiogram. Do you agree Bluesdoc? Like you I have a high CAC score of about 1500

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bluesdoc | @bluesdoc | Feb 1, 2021

Hi again, Tim. Yes, I agree. CAC scores are statistically associated with coronary risk, but there are plenty of outliers, ie, someone with a CAC score of 400 and no plaque on angiogram (a case my cardiologist had). And those of us with scores off the charts, no one understands the meaning. If Annie, with a CAC score of 256 is in the 92nd percentile for MI risk, those of us in the thousands ought to be dead several times over. Apparently, we're not.

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