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Strategies & Market Trends : Technology Stocks & Market Talk With Don Wolanchuk
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To: da_cheif™ who wrote (11628)11/6/2003 10:14:53 PM
From: w0z  Read Replies (1) of 207748
 
Don, I had a Heartscan on my own initiative 5 years ago. I heard about it because it was based on the ultrafast CT scanner by Imatron (then IMAT but later bought by GE Medical). This scan indicates calcifications in your heart as a predictor of blockages. Mine showed a moderate score and my wife's was zero, even though her cholestrol and family history was worse than mine. Based on this test, I began taking a low dosage (10 mg) of Pravachol (one of the statin drugs) in order to hopefully reverse the calcification by lowering total cholestrol and improving my "Risk Factor" which is the ratio of HDL to Total cholestrol. I've been thinking about having another Heartscan done to see if I've been successful in reducing the calcification, but have not done it as yet.

In your case, it sounds as though you are beyond the point where a Heartscan would be useful since you already have known problems and since a catheterization would tell much more about your condition (although it is much more invasive and expensive than a Heartscan). Heartscan is about a 15 minute procedure, totally non-invasive and inexpensive ($400 when I had it done).

Too bad more medical procedures are not predictive and preventative-oriented rather than diagnostic. I was reminded of this today when I got my flu shot which, of course, health insurance will not cover (it didn't cover the Heartscan either).
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