To my friends,
My boys bought me a $400 MRI (Calcium Score) a test to see if my arteries were candidates for plaque. Well, this 53yr. old who finished well at our Michigan Masters meet didn't do well on his test. The score goes from 1 to 100 and the closer you get to 100 the chances of plaque in the arteries goes up. I ended up with a 99 and won a visit to a cardiologist who ran a MRI / Stress test. The good news is the drug I'm on (Vitorin) lowered my bad cholesterol and triglicyrides by 1/2 213 to 113 and 113 to 58. Don't wait my friends, get the calcium score and get some piece of mind. I may die today, but heck, I know I tried and I tried to spread the word..
I'm still lifting, biking, and swimming. Running the good race?? :angel::angel::angel:
With a little Googling I came across this article on about.com:
heartdisease.about.com/.../EBT.htm
Seems the efficacy of EBT isn't necessarily cut and dried. If you have an extremely high score or an extremely low score it seems it will correlate very well with your disease risk, but it seems there ls a large middle ground which can yield lots of false positives and false negatives.
Skip Montanaro
With a little Googling I came across this article on about.com:
heartdisease.about.com/.../EBT.htm
Seems the efficacy of EBT isn't necessarily cut and dried. If you have an extremely high score or an extremely low score it seems it will correlate very well with your disease risk, but it seems there ls a large middle ground which can yield lots of false positives and false negatives.
Skip Montanaro
