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Last week, I found myself in a situation that could soon be familiar to a lot more Americans: sliding into a CT scanner with a smattering of electrodes attached to my chest and ribs, my arms raised over my head. A serene voice asked me to take a small breath and hold it. A loudish whirring from the machine, a few shifts of the table, and another request for a small breath later, and suddenly I was sliding back out.
In those two, maybe three minutes, the scanner had collected images of the blood vessels in my heart to look for calcium buildup — snapshots many more people might soon find themselves getting.
Major medical organizations recently updated their cholesterol guidelines for the first time since 2018, taking advantage of tools that offer a longer-term view of heart attack and stroke risk and allow for earlier preventative care. Practically overnight, that’s changing how physicians approach their patients’ heart health — a welcome development. Cardiovascular disease is still the top killer of Americans, and the new guidelines ideally will motivate more people to make healthy changes.
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