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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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@steveny9

Thank you for sharing.

I am a bit freaked out myself with a CAC score of 583 at the age of 65.

I read that vitamin K and D3 help to move the calcium to the where it should go and not into the arteries. Did you take any supplements?

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keithl56 | @keithl56 | Mar 19, 2023

I take 50,000 iu of vitamin D2/week, not for CAD reasons but because of a vitamin D deficiency.

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drrawat | @drrawat | Mar 21, 2023

No evidence of supplements helping. I am a cardiologist and got my calcium score just casually as I was giving a seminar on it to local drs some four years ago. It came 746! No symptoms, no risk factors, marathoner. Got stress nuclear tested. Just on statins/ aspirin. As an interventional cardiologist myself, I see most patients of heart attack have soft non calcified lesions. Moreover statins tend to increase the calcium score. So you know that it’s not as simple!
I don’t think it needs to be ever repeated. Just avoid over thinking and over treatment.

Best wishes

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