Coronary Calcium Score Valuable, But Not Perfect

As mentioned in the “Marathon Man” Case #345, I like imaging — both invasive and non-invasive — for accurate CAD risk assessment. But no test is perfect, including the Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) scan, which provides us with the CAC score (CACS). Read more…


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AHA Guidelines Data: Hospital CAD Admissions

A colleague of mine recently refreshed us  with the AHA  “Get With the Guidelines”* data from 2008 that  revealed that nearly 75% of 137,000 patients admitted to the hospital with CAD had LDL levels below 130 mg/dL and nearly 50% had LDL levels below 100 mg/dL.

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