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Anyone have Small vessel spasms in their heart?
Has anyone else been told they have small vessel spasms in their heart? I have had CABG X2, stent placement in 2021, angioplasty after the...
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Last active: Jun 21, 2023
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High Calcium Score and PCSK9
My CAC score is 408. I exercise, eat healthy and take appropriate supplements for heart health. I do have a history of high cholesterol and...
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Last active: Jul 8, 2023
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Living with high calcium score
I am a 53 year old male. Just found out I have a CAC of 731. Most of it (699) is in the right coronary....
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Last active: 6 days ago
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Experience Many Years After High CAC
Like apparently many on this site I recently received an unexpected high CAC score. 99th percentile for age and gender. 60ish years old. CT angiogram...
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Last active: Jul 15, 2023
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Summary of Icosapent Ethyl (IPE) Vascepa Studies (2023)
Hi All, Below review of previous studies is a lot to unpack, but a good read. Here's the conclusion: "While the mechanism is not thoroughly...
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Last active: Nov 8, 2023
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Xanthelasma
Over the years statins elevated my liver enzymes so a year ago I was taken off of them. I have tried to control my cholesterol...
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Last active: Sep 26, 2019
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No breathlessness when walking and climbing, but anxious
Hello, I just visited my cardiologist first week of October. The recent blood work showed my cholesterol to be normal, my blood sugar h1b1c(i am...
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Last active: Nov 2, 2023
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Newly diagnosed, I think?
Hello all. New to the group. Just some background on me. I have Primary Biliary Cholangitis and am a Thyroid cancer survivor. I'm 53 years...
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Last active: Sep 18, 2022
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scintillating scotoma after mitral valve repair and A-Fib. ablation
@colleenyoung, hi! last may I joined your group (yoanne). I did several postings about mitral valve repair, about statins etc. now I have a question...
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Last active: Feb 2, 2021
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At 76, no cardiologist is willing to give me a CT calcium test
I have a family history of inherited elevated lipids (one of two siblings , younger, passed away two years away of what is being assumed...
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Last active: Feb 10, 2023