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?
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We’re actually getting there. There’s a new elective CT scan you can have done that appears to be a reliable predictor for cardiac events. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8723785/
A few of my coworkers have had it, wound up being like $300 out of pocket without going through insurance at all.
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