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High calcium score: I'm in shock
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Nov 4 2:36pm | Replies (214)Comment receiving replies
It appears you do stress tests to your heart frequently as you are quite active. If you the book “beating the heart attack gene” they say stress tests are only accurate if you have more than 70% blockage. I strongly recommend you to Read the book. It is so surprising when you are fit and a high calcium score comes back. The book calls it cat in the gutter. Their approach is to keep the cat in the gutter through statins, etc.
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swilkins,
There is a massive amount of information about the effect of statins on soft plaques - it causes the soft material to calcify which prevents the soft material from breaking off. This obviously increases CAC scores, though.
My limited knowledge, but lots of reading led me to conclude the calcium could be inside the artery wall - and, some even say outside the wall (although I can't figure out how this would happen).
Stress tests come in different varieties, some with and some without echo (ultrasound) testing - so, specificity is needed when discussing. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/16983-exercise-stress-echocardiogram