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

This is one of the important reasons to have an annual eye exam. When Optometrists are looking at the back of your eye, we can actually see cholesterol building up in the arteries and refer you for a cardiovascular workup.