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...five times a week for the past three decades. A few months back, my yearly checkup showed an abnormal stress test [result]. Angiography indicated multiple blocks in my blood vessels, some of them major. The next step was to have heart-bypass surgery. I was shocked and asked my cardiologist how that could happen after I had been taking so much care. He calmly replied, "Just the way you like to inherit the wealth of your parents, you should be prepared to accept their genes too." I was one of the fortunate ones who was warned in advance. There...
...walk five times a week for the past three decades. A few months back, my yearly checkup showed an abnormal stress test. Angiography indicated multiple blocks in my blood vessels, some of them major. The next step was to have heart-bypass surgery. I was shocked and asked my cardiologist how that could happen after I had been taking so much care. He calmly replied, "Just the way you like to inherit the wealth of your parents, you should be prepared to accept their genes too." I was one of the fortunate ones who was warned in advance. There...
Meanwhile, there is still an issue of professional turf left to resolve. High-tech imaging--particularly CT scanning--has long been the purview of radiologists, many of whom don't take kindly to cardiologists encroaching on their territory. After all, it has happened before. Radiologists used to perform lots of cardiac catheterizations but have pretty much given up that technique to heart specialists, in large part because they were simply outnumbered. As for who is best at reading cardiac CT scans, cardiologists argue that they have a better understanding of the heart's anatomy and function, while radiologists point...
...heart abnormalities. The latest research, for example, shows that in some people, the calcium is spread thinly throughout the coronary arteries, while in others it is clumped in larger lesions. Which is worse? Doctors still aren't sure, but they are developing some interesting theories. Dr. Linda Demer, a cardiologist at UCLA who has been studying coronary calcium for 15 years, believes that having many small calcium deposits may be worse than having fewer larger ones. Her work suggests that it is not the total amount of calcium that makes vessels vulnerable but rather the way the deposits are anchored...
...number is high? So far, studies show that scans are best at predicting heart problems in those with several risk factors: high cholesterol, elevated blood pressure, a family history of heart disease. "The question for these people is, How aggressive should their treatment be?" says Dr. Matthew Budoff, a cardiologist at UCLA. "Do we put them on a statin for the rest of their lives or tell them to just watch their diet? Knowing how much calcium they have could help inform this decision." --By Alice Park