Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast.

I'm your host, Ivor Cummins.

We're supported by the Irish Heart Disease Awareness charity,

which advocates a simple CT scan to reveal your CAC score.

So know your score and take action to prevent that premature heart attack.

Everything you need to know will be right here.

Hello and welcome to another Fat Emperor podcast short and today we're going to debunk some of

the mythology around coronary scanning, calcium scanning and CT angiograms, some of the myths that are out there so we'll

start with a quick reminder on coronary calcification the CAC score and how powerful it is to identify

those people at the greatest risk so 40% of heart events occur in the top 10% of calcium scoring people. And generally speaking,

it is the way to screen middle risk people and find out who's at the greatest risk and needs to

take action fast. So you see in the screen here, we've got zero scoring people in middle age,

have a very low 10-year rate as expected as we get to

higher scores intermediate scores 100 to 400 we have up to 10 times the potential risk in the next 10

years and as we get to very high scores up to the thousand and more we have up to 25 times the 10 year risk. So obviously these people

who are at huge risk, even though their blood markers are not particularly impressive,

they can be found and saved by taking action. David Bobbitt, who founded the IHDA, got a very

high score back in 2012 and he was shocked

at how underused this technology is even though it's 40 years old.

So he put several million dollars into the Irish heart disease awareness and we have

a new website coming, IHDA.i and please do feel free to drop in there and you'll get a lot more documentaries

and interviews with cardiologists on this amazing scan. But we'll go ahead and have another

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