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High CAC Score and Current Status
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: May 25 8:22am | Replies (69)Comment receiving replies
By the standards used by the medical profession, yes, based on age, high blood pressure and cholesterol - you didn't say what yours was (assuming less than 199? :-)) - you should have been on statins.
You have decided what your doctor has prescribed - after their 12-16 years of study, and then practice - is "...dangerous in it's own way ..."
You may be past the time for really intense workouts - do you think these are helpful wrt your heart health? Time to reexamine, perhaps?
Did your new PCP take you off cholesterol meds?
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Actually no -- I haven't decided anything and have not changed anything. Guess I didn't make that clear earlier. I'm just looking at and exploring other possible opinions including doctors with the same years of study and experience you mention but simply are challenging the current approach. Correct - my Cholesterol never exceeded 200 with or without meds and to answer your question my PCP just deferred to the cardiologist and then left the practice. Had no PCP for a while. Working on that now. This actually may not be a good thread to discuss new approaches. Just stumbled on it. Thanks!