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You Found Heart Plaque. Now What?
You just found out you have plaque in your coronary arteries, even with no symptoms and a normal cholesterol panel. Here's exactly what I do next as a cardiologist: the three real goals of treatment, and how we actually get there.
About half of first heart attacks happen with no warning symptoms and no known heart disease beforehand. If your coronary CT or calcium score just came back with plaque on it, that's not a reason to panic, it's an opportunity most people never get. In this video I break down what your results actually mean (narrowing vs. plaque burden vs. plaque type), the three…
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