Early Heart Disease Detection with CIMT Testing

Okay, the second one, cimt, Carotid intima Media thickness test. This is an ultrasound. This is one of my favorites because it's very easy to do, more expensive than the calcium. Scores more like 300 and is a good way to track things along. And there's very clear standards based on sex and ethnicity of what your CIMT should look like. This is the carotid artery, which in here you can feel your pulse. If you have disease in your heart, you'll also have in your carotid artery. They're kind of mirror each other. So it's a good canary and coal mine to tell you if you have disease somewhere else. Because when you get atherosclerosis, there's certain areas where it grows first and there's areas of turbulence and there's one right here and there's one in another artery here called the left anterior descending, which we call the widowmaker. When people have it, you know, plug up.