Health, Longevity & Biohacking
Surgeon Philip Ovadia says men should get heart calcium scans by 40
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The #1 Killer Isn’t Meat | Dr. Philip Ovadia #496 | The Way I Heard It
""Uh so the screening test is what's called a coronary artery calcium test. And when I spoke to Chuck a couple of years ago, I said, "Chuck, go get this test." Right? That's like the mammogram for the heart.""
Philip Ovadia argues that coronary artery calcium (CAC) scans are a cheap, underused way to measure calcified plaque in the heart’s arteries. He says men should get a CAC scan by 40 and women by 50, comparing it to mammography as a routine screening tool.
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