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Pittsburg, Kansas | My guess, and it is just a guess, is that the medical community doesn’t see anything the test will do other than suggest more tests if there appears to be a problem. They see no other intervention other than start taking a statin drug or why not just do the other tests if symptoms suggest. And if that is your belief, they are probably correct.
However if you believe as I do and many more doctors do all the time, there are lifestyle changes that can change the trajectory of the calcification, then knowing you have a problem early can be beneficial. Either by lifestyle changes or if the disease is already bad enough for more urgent medical intervention or tests.
So in my view the ones that think CAC has no value, it is simply out of their wheelhouse. Nothing they learned in medical school applies to fix it so fogetaboutit.
But for an individual who is willing to make lifestyle changes it could be the encouragement to do so, once they know they have a problem.
My guess and opinion only.
My heart doctor blew the idea of CAC off. So I went and got it done elsewhere before the tests he wanted could even be done because of scheduling. (Then I went ahead with the sonogram but not the stress test.)
Edited by John Burns 1/10/2025 06:06
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Life line screening for stroke
