Can Bloodwork Predict Heart Disease?

Name: Can Bloodwork Predict Heart Disease?
Uploaded: 2024-12-24T17:00:15+00:00
Duration: 26 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok explaining that certain blood tests—particularly hemoglobin A1C and HOMA, which measure blood sugar…

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok explaining that certain blood tests—particularly hemoglobin A1C and HOMA, which measure blood sugar control—are associated with atherosclerosis. The speaker states that higher A1C and higher blood sugar (seen in pre-diabetics and diabetics) correlate with increased heart attack risk, though these tests do not deterministically predict individual outcomes.

And we're finding that there's certain blood work that can predict heart disease to some degree, but they're not really telling you if you're the one that's going to get it, or maybe you don't have that risk factor and you think you're just fine. The hemoglobin A1C, which is a measure of diabetes, the higher it is, the more likely you'll have atherosclerosis. That's the strongest link. There's something called homa, which is kind of similar to A1C, but it's basically your blood sugar. So higher blood sugar. Pre diabetics, diabetics and get more heart attacks and non pre diabetics and non diabetics.