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<blockquote data-quote="TheBigNewt" data-source="post: 1638921" data-attributes="member: 380756"><p>If you don't think "high" cholesterol isn't a risk factor for coronary events I've got some swamp land I'll send you in Florida! I am pimping statins for people with established disease: stent, heart attack, bypass. No question about statins and them. You mention the "CAC scan, which we call EBCT I think. Now that's controversial. Why? Because the mere presence of coronary calcium doesn't tell if the artery is blocked inside, the flow of blood. And if you have some what do they tell you to do about it? TAKE A STATIN. They are mostly useful if you have NO calcium. Then you're OK. But people I see are usually in their 60s and virtually none of them have zero calcium. I just gives them something more to worry about. Now there are newer imaging techniques that allow you to actually see/estimate % of the artery that is blocked. Those aren't used in a lot of places yet. Old fashioned angiography is still the "gold standard" for coronary blockages. Done my share of those over the years (not anymore though).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheBigNewt, post: 1638921, member: 380756"] If you don't think "high" cholesterol isn't a risk factor for coronary events I've got some swamp land I'll send you in Florida! I am pimping statins for people with established disease: stent, heart attack, bypass. No question about statins and them. You mention the "CAC scan, which we call EBCT I think. Now that's controversial. Why? Because the mere presence of coronary calcium doesn't tell if the artery is blocked inside, the flow of blood. And if you have some what do they tell you to do about it? TAKE A STATIN. They are mostly useful if you have NO calcium. Then you're OK. But people I see are usually in their 60s and virtually none of them have zero calcium. I just gives them something more to worry about. Now there are newer imaging techniques that allow you to actually see/estimate % of the artery that is blocked. Those aren't used in a lot of places yet. Old fashioned angiography is still the "gold standard" for coronary blockages. Done my share of those over the years (not anymore though). [/QUOTE]
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