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The tone in his notes is clearly one of irritation. Your frustration and pursuit of further...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/766616/

Discussion: High CAC Score and Current Status

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Oct 28, 2022

No discussion of the cath lab at all, at least not yet. The cardiologist who set...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/732813/

Discussion: Extremely high calcium score at 42 - is there any positive here??

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Jul 31, 2022

Hi steveny, So, my story is that I did a CAC test when I was 65...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/725426/

Discussion: Extremely high calcium score at 42 - is there any positive here??

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Jul 10, 2022

First off- Since you have established plaque (CAC>0), my suggestion is to continue Rosuvastatin. Increasing CAC...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1121025/

Discussion: Angiogram reveals LAD 70% blocked with no flow restriction?

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Aug 10 9:00am

Hello - Most of my life (I am 68) I had a normal cholesterol level around...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/102551/

Discussion: Supplements vs statins - which is more effective?

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Aug 5, 2016

I am 78 YO female. Because my cholesterol was in the high normal range, in 2007...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/846164/

Discussion: Extremely high calcium score at 42 - is there any positive here??

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Apr 20, 2023

So I haven't been here in a long time, but I started this thread originally in...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/984587/

Discussion: Extremely high calcium score at 42 - is there any positive here??

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Dec 21, 2023

to MAYOCONNECTUSER1 I'm a retired health teacher and have studied nutrition since 1978. As for the...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1150133/

Discussion: Anyone else out there with extremely high lipoprotein (a)?

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Oct 1 8:20am

74 years old, received CAC score 6 months ago 1,328. Using web, I entered numbers and...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/695358/

Discussion: High calcium score: I'm in shock

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Apr 1, 2022

Hello Everyone - I posted this recently in the supplements vs statins section, although I am...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/108825/

Discussion: Want to control my cholesterol and triglycerides with food

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Aug 10, 2016

Steven, I think when a doctor has a patient with a not so good prognosis, they...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/733187/

Discussion: Extremely high calcium score at 42 - is there any positive here??

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Aug 1, 2022

My calcium score was 122 and I am a 67 yr old female. I have low...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/870938/

Discussion: High Coronary Calcium Score: How do others feel emotionally?

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Jun 2, 2023

Really appreciate this. Yes, that’s been my basic initial reaction too, just a sense that an...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/725228/

Discussion: Extremely high calcium score at 42 - is there any positive here??

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Jul 9, 2022

I know next to nothing about hypercholesterolemia, but it's discussed in a couple books that I...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/102543/

Discussion: Supplements vs statins - which is more effective?

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Jul 6, 2016

An update: I saw the second cardiologist today. He was surprised my score was so high...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/726561/

Discussion: Extremely high calcium score at 42 - is there any positive here??

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Jul 13, 2022

@bigbern- I have always watched what I have eaten and did a hr. of cardio and...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/130040/

Discussion: High Coronary Calcium Score: How do others feel emotionally?

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Aug 20, 2018

I would like to comment on how I feel emotionally, since that was the original intent...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/851170/

Discussion: High Coronary Calcium Score: How do others feel emotionally?

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Apr 28, 2023

I totally agree. I’m a 54 F. Looking back, I wish I would’ve been more educated...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1054382/

Discussion: Living with high calcium score

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Apr 20 4:14pm

Hello everyone, first time poster here with a similar tale. First I want to take a...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/130262/

Discussion: High Coronary Calcium Score: How do others feel emotionally?

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Dec 30, 2019

@mark430 I was told by my doctor that chelation can remove plaque from arteries, and it...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/130200/

Discussion: High Coronary Calcium Score: How do others feel emotionally?

Support Group: Heart & Blood Health

Posted: Apr 15, 2019