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So I have the echo report but I don’t know what the key metrics are, and...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/731726/
consulted has expressed surprise that my calcium ... score is 400 given that the baseline ... If I had a score of, say, 80, I think
Discussion: Extremely high calcium score at 42 - is there any positive here??
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Posted: Jul 28, 2022
So I haven't been here in a long time, but I started this thread originally in...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/984587/
when, at age 42, I learned that my calcium ... score was 397. ... realized that the man who invented the calcium ... score, Dr. ... that my extremely high initial CAC score
Discussion: Extremely high calcium score at 42 - is there any positive here??
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Posted: Dec 21, 2023
All news to me ("endothelial damage"?) Interested in the part about rupture of soft plaque being...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/734679/
could provide information about calcium ... scores - for instance, how they&#39 ... are considered the most reliable calcium ... score? ... Thinking of: calcium test of heart
Discussion: High CAC score
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Posted: Aug 6, 2022
@mayblin Thanks so much for reaching out! My original post was last May 2024. I'm now...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1268754/
No dexa at that visit, but my blood calcium ... dexa scan this visit and my Lumbar score ... No hip score or cervical score because ... really don't matter." Also the calcium ... score was down some to a 10.6.
Discussion: Looking ahead after Tymlos: Reclast, Evenity or HRT?
Support Group: Osteoporosis & Bone Health
Posted: Mar 28 1:57pm
Robert, Concerning the triple bypass denial, did your thoracic surgeon (or his office staff) put in...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/896291/
to a very high CAC (coronary artery calcium ... ) score, my cardiologists office asked ... office, I reminded them of my high CAC score
Discussion: CABG Surgery. In a dilemma.
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Posted: Jul 15, 2023
I would definitely go to see a cardiologist and have them do an arterial calcium scan...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1321885/
cardiologist and have them do an arterial calcium ... OK but he wanted to do an arterial calcium ... that day and told me it was high my calcium ... score was 1253 among four coronary ... My left anterior descending had a score
Discussion: Anyone else out there with extremely high lipoprotein (a)?
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Posted: Jun 6 5:10pm
Lola, I think you expressed how most of us feel: "I'm frozen with fear....either way scared...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1071026/
#39;m frozen with fear....either way scared ... to take the drugs and also scared not ... The question was about my coronary calcium ... score, which is very high, and my concern ... that Evenity + coronary calcium would
Discussion: Hesitant to begin drug treatment for my osteoporosis
Support Group: Osteoporosis & Bone Health
Posted: May 19, 2024
I was over on the High Coronary Calcium Score: How do others feel emotionally? thread for...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/984981/
I was over on the High Coronary Calcium ... Score: How do others feel emotionally ... inflammatory based diseases with high CAC scores
Discussion: Extremely high calcium score at 42 - is there any positive here??
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Posted: Dec 22, 2023
I'm glad I found this discussion as I was diagnosed with a 108 CAC score when...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/811636/
as I was diagnosed with a 108 CAC score ... A high CAC score is not a death sentence ... in their 80s' or 90's with calcium ... scores in the thousands and he says ... now I'm not concerned about my calcium
Discussion: I have a very high calcium score. What next?
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Posted: Feb 15, 2023
I truly beg you and everyone to get a second opinion. Different doctors and surgeons treat...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/656021/
disease so had undergone a CT for calcium ... score and they saw one of the my ground ... I was so scared going in, I mean it’
Discussion: Multiple lung nodules: Might they be noncancerous? What next?
Support Group: Lung Cancer
Posted: Nov 20, 2021
I think this is my first posting in this group. I'm a 76 year old woman,...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/334029/
old woman, former jogger, with a CAC score ... his own surprise at having his own score ... others' posts on the the High Calcium ... Score thread - so many there with long ... Soon your score will just be another
Discussion: Any women with high CAC scores?
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Posted: Feb 7, 2021
Hi Colleen and thank you for posting my link for the Cleveland Clinic's info. on Radiation...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/279227/
practice recommended he get the Coronary Calcium ... My husband's score on this test ... My coronary artery calcium score is
Discussion: Cancer Treatment Induced Heart Disease
Support Group: Cancer: Managing Symptoms
Posted: Feb 14, 2020
Just in case anyone has been following this and finding it useful (or finds this thread...
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/734386/
brother) * A 10-year event risk score ... never met any criteria for getting a calcium ... mind -- I pay 100 bucks and take a calcium ... He said that when the initial calcium ... that would normally even prompt a calcium
Discussion: Extremely high calcium score at 42 - is there any positive here??
Support Group: Heart & Blood Health
Posted: Aug 5, 2022