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Extremely high calcium score at 42 - is there any positive here??
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Apr 16 10:55pm | Replies (173)Comment receiving replies
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?
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Well yes to the high cholesterol but also genetic marker for heart disease and a plethora of deceased relatives who died from heart and/or stroke. So not a good omen. But my recent CAC was five years ago with a score of 4. And, in an abundance of caution, I also had the Endopat test done and had a really good result on that.