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<blockquote data-quote="Don Schultz" data-source="post: 22246" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Thanks! Good idea. The challenge is that the cardio is just guessing about wheather my heart disease is under control due to the measures we have taken or if it is progressing. Sometimes docs like to use a stress test but I always passed my stress tests in the years and months prior to my angina and stents. We assumed we had it under control for at least 6 years prior. The only way to know definitively if heart disease is progressing is with a coronary angiography (dye in blood) and thats a pretty advanced procedure and clearly not performed routinely. You would think with the prevalence of CHD that we could develop at definitive and simple test to know if the calcification is progressing. There are tests that can give a glimpse but they are not definitive. In my case, those tests showed reason for mild concern but nothing alarming. It was only when I developed angina and had the Coronary Angiogram that the real picture was completely clear. I was under direct treatment by a cardiologist for 6 years prior to 2012, I saw him August 1, 2012, in fact, and was given the all clear. I developed angina on August 15 and had 5 stents place on August 28. Like I said, they are guessing. I read most of Nelson's page on this topic and even the top docs in this area don't seem to be able to agree. Honestly, I'd like to hear Nelson's take on this because he has a great talent in reading, digesting, keeping current with and explaining current thought based upon quality studies and first hand knowledge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Don Schultz, post: 22246, member: 17"] Thanks! Good idea. The challenge is that the cardio is just guessing about wheather my heart disease is under control due to the measures we have taken or if it is progressing. Sometimes docs like to use a stress test but I always passed my stress tests in the years and months prior to my angina and stents. We assumed we had it under control for at least 6 years prior. The only way to know definitively if heart disease is progressing is with a coronary angiography (dye in blood) and thats a pretty advanced procedure and clearly not performed routinely. You would think with the prevalence of CHD that we could develop at definitive and simple test to know if the calcification is progressing. There are tests that can give a glimpse but they are not definitive. In my case, those tests showed reason for mild concern but nothing alarming. It was only when I developed angina and had the Coronary Angiogram that the real picture was completely clear. I was under direct treatment by a cardiologist for 6 years prior to 2012, I saw him August 1, 2012, in fact, and was given the all clear. I developed angina on August 15 and had 5 stents place on August 28. Like I said, they are guessing. I read most of Nelson's page on this topic and even the top docs in this area don't seem to be able to agree. Honestly, I'd like to hear Nelson's take on this because he has a great talent in reading, digesting, keeping current with and explaining current thought based upon quality studies and first hand knowledge. [/QUOTE]
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