Nocturne
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I know this is slightly off topic, but this is the "heart talk" forum, and I know that many people dealing with AVS also have high CAC scores.
Just last year, MESA (the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis) released this calculator for predicting risk of cardiac events that incorporates CAC score:
https://www.mesa-nhlbi.org/MESACHDRi...RiskScore.aspx
It appears to be yet another example of more modern understanding of the significance of CAC score as being less dire than what was hinted at years ago by Dr. Davis (of Track Your Plaque fame) and some others. The oft-quoted "25% per year chance of a heart attack at CAC of 1000" appears to be based on a single study involving less than 100 people. If you use a score like that with this calculator you see that very high CAC is highly significant (and bad -- my CAC score of 156 almost triples my chance of a cardiac event over the next decade), but it's not quite the mark of doom on one's forehead.
Just last year, MESA (the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis) released this calculator for predicting risk of cardiac events that incorporates CAC score:
https://www.mesa-nhlbi.org/MESACHDRi...RiskScore.aspx
It appears to be yet another example of more modern understanding of the significance of CAC score as being less dire than what was hinted at years ago by Dr. Davis (of Track Your Plaque fame) and some others. The oft-quoted "25% per year chance of a heart attack at CAC of 1000" appears to be based on a single study involving less than 100 people. If you use a score like that with this calculator you see that very high CAC is highly significant (and bad -- my CAC score of 156 almost triples my chance of a cardiac event over the next decade), but it's not quite the mark of doom on one's forehead.
