Paul Saladino· MD
But if you do nothing, your calcium score test can continue to probably increase by about 20% a year.
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But if you do nothing, your calcium score test can continue to probably increase by about 20% a year.
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the average progression in the studies uh you know not looking at this type of population when you just look across the population on average it goes up somewhere between 15 and 20 maybe 25% per year okay to most people so I tell people if it's going up less than 5% which is sort of the margin of error of measurement anyway. Uh we're doing good. You're at low risk of a cardiac event and what you're doing is working.
I know that the CAC is a great way to follow progression, right? Because again, it's that low radiation. It's inexpensive. And so I do like to get it every year until we think until we find that things stabilize, right? And that's my goal with patients. If your CAC score isn't zero and if we've ruled out real bad disease, severe disease, and we'll talk about that next, you know, I just want to keep that CAC score stable.