Why can’t/don’t doctors regularly check to see if your arteries are majorly clogged?

Question

I often hear stories of a guy who has a heart attack and come to find out that 95% of a major blood vessel to the heart was clogged.

How is this not picked up earlier during normal exams? Why isn’t it?

Can’t they do radiation shots to see where the blood flows or whatever?

In: Biology

Answer 1

If you have money you can definitely do that.

But most people don’t have money, and far more than most people have nothing wrong with their arteries in a routine appointment.