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So many burnt out cardiologists want to practice as independent consultants seeing patients on zoom and advising diagnostics and therapy. But that is not what hospital or practice politicians want

I was originally trained as an Aeronautical Engineer before falling in love with clinical cardiology

Just to provide some historical perspective as to where we are now and what came before. At our height in Columbus Ohio in the halcion days of OhioHeart we had amazed a total of 25,000 #cac scans and I was called by an angry journalist in 2004 from NYT about the controversy’s to

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Agree. We have published data on visceral fat and increased low density coronary artery atherosclerosis Ronald P. Karlsberg MD FACP FAHA FACC MSCCT |

When it comes to CAC, #keepitsimple Know when to use #PowerofZero to identify very low risk groups and help focus rx on those who need it most. Dr Khurram Nasir helped summarize CAC testing from theory to practice #ASPC2025 ASPC Michael J. Blaha Roger Blumenthal Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center

How about something simple like ‘plaque burden’ aka #cac?

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to stop progression, the LDL needs to be 50 mg/dl; but what you took would still have been beneficial

Dr. John A Rumberger, PhD, MD, FACC, MSCCT Likely has more stable plaques than what would’ve otherwise been the case, yes?

You are absolutely correct in pointing this out. Thanks

Absolutely

Combination of moderate dose statin and Ezetimibe

Fantastic. But use non HDL as your metric TC - HDL = < 70 mg/ dl rather than calculated LDL. Tracks closer to ApoB

I can’t advise everyone but since you are a fellow aerospace engineer this might be ok. Do you have a cac scan or CCTA from which a plaque burden can be estimated