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Extremely high calcium score at 42 - is there any positive here??
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Jun 25 3:31pm | Replies (193)Comment receiving replies
I don't know if fluffy, non-sticky, large molecule cholesterol would have an effect on current players or not. But it's better to have more of it than not, as I understand. I have chronically high cholesterol and the genetic marker for some heart disaster or other but cardio profiles always label me as giving A (optimal) profile. My former cardiologist attributes that good luck to the proportion of non-sticky cholesterol my body seems to make.
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That should read "on current plaque"...
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Interesting. I'm going to ask about this at my appointment tomorrow. It is interesting to look at these different indicators of disease/risk calculators. I entered my data into the Framingham score calculator today and it gave me a 1.8% chance of an incident in the next 10 years. I then used the MESA calculator -- which includes the CAC score, unlike Framingham -- and got 7.2%. So a four-fold increase basically just from adding in that CAC score.
Just out of curiosity, are you saying high cholesterol is you're only measurable indicator? Have you scored 0 on the CAC test?