Hey guys, we're back on heart disease today, heart disease prevention, heart attack prevention, calcium scoring and all of the technology around that to keep yourself safe.

So we're with Mark Feldstead from We Love Our Heart, the pioneer group leader to bring together people to eliminate heart attacks in as much as possible.

And we've brought along one of those guys, Doug, who has

an extraordinary story because he is one of the relatively few super high scorers, especially super

high scores who have not had any major events as such. So it's going to be a fascinating discussion,

especially for people who are worried about high calcium scores. So,

great to see you, Mark, and great to meet you, Doug. I, I have always a pleasure, always a

pleasure, my friend. Hi, Iva. Hi, Mark. Hey, Doug. I don't know whether we want to build up

the tension here, but I think, no, we'll get straight to the current score and give people an

idea of the current score and

the score over the years because i think we'll want to get into progression as well because

interesting sure my uh my current score was uh three thousand six hundred uh and when i got that news it was

a pretty big shock because i was the first time I'd actually

looked at all the all the scales but I recalled doing a test very early on in 2006 and

had a score of 473 and it was repeated in 2016 and it was just over 1,200.

So the progression from back in 2006 to now is about 12.5% per year.

Yeah.

And that's interesting because even though you have a massive score, an excellent study I've shared many, many times looked at high scores, but it looked at progression.

And the people who progressed at a high rate, like above 15% per year, they had enormous level of heart events, like 50% of that group had heart events.

But the people who progressed at lower than 15% per year, particularly around 5, 6, 7, 8, whatever,

even with the very high score that would suggest they have massive risk,

their actual heart event rate was only around 3%, which wasn't really a whole lot different

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