#28: Coronary artery calcium scoring: The ultimate cardiovascular risk assessment

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science, Higher Education, Education

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🗓️ 27 February 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Individualize cardiovascular risk, and optimize risk reduction using cardiac CT with coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring. Our expert guests from The Society for Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), Dr. Harvey Hecht, Professor of Medicine from Mount Sinai, and Dr. Matthew Budoff, Professor of Medicine from UCLA, school us on the use of this powerful tool. Special thanks to Dr. Emilio Fentanes from the SCCT for setting up this interview.

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0:00.0	It's about a $200 test, which I always remind them is the price of a good dinner.
0:06.2	If they wanted to get a good steak dinner, there would be about $200.
0:09.6	If you want to live to have more steak dinners, that they should get the test and understand
0:16.0	their cardiac risk.
0:28.1	Welcome back to the Curbsiders, the Internal Medicine Podcast that uses expert interviews
0:33.5	to bring you clinical pearls and practice changing knowledge.
0:37.0	I'm Dr. Matthew Wato, here with my co-host, Dr. Paul Williams.
0:41.8	Hey, Paul.
0:42.8	Hey, Matt, how are you going?
0:45.4	Paul, unfortunately, you might notice I wasn't interrupted during the intro.
0:52.2	I noticed you made through an entire sentence, so I was proud of you.
0:55.5	Something feels different.
0:56.6	Matt, yeah, that means that Dr. Stuart Briggum couldn't make it tonight.
1:01.0	I think he has a date night with his lovely wife, and we don't blame him for that.
1:05.5	He also has five children, so I imagine, and three cats, which I realized on the last
1:10.6	episode, I think he has as many cats as you plus the five kids, Paul.
1:14.7	Really, you're slacking.
1:16.7	Or winning.
1:17.7	It really depends on your perspective, I think.
1:20.2	That's right.
1:21.2	You're watching 365 movies and 365 days.
1:25.0	Me and my cats are my low and lead dark department.
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