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Pastimes : Heart Attacks, Cancer and strokes. Preventative approaches
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To: LindyBill who wrote (4948)5/7/2009 7:01:12 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 39365
 
You want to stay out of his Cath lab.

Indeed.

But not at the risk of other vulnerabilities. One needs to cover all the bases. I'm not so sure that the only time you need to see a cardiologist is when you have symptoms. You could be in big cardiac trouble without symptoms and I don't know who could make that assessment other than a cardiologist.

You need to cover all the bases. Yes, you've covered the with-symptoms base by seeing a cardiologist when you have symptoms. And you've covered a big part of the no-symptom base with calcium scoring. But it seems to me that there's a gap left uncovered, non-symptomatic heart problems that don't involve plaque.

We've had a discussion before about what is or isn't "heart disease." Regardless of what nomenclature you use for the disease, there are problems that cardiologists are best equipped to uncover and deal with that don't involve plaque. It would be a shame, not to mention ironic, to be so attentive about one's heart health yet be felled by one of them out of concern about the propensity of cardiologists toward precipitous procedures. No one can make you get a procedure you don't want. If the cardiologist pushes for it and you are not symptomatic, you can always decline. So seeing a cardiologist is not equivalent to pre-committing to submit to a procedure. It's buying the cardiologist's expertise on the state of your heart. After you get his advise, what you do with it is under your control.
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