Predicting and Preventing Heart Attacks

Name: Predicting and Preventing Heart Attacks
Uploaded: 2024-10-10T16:00:59+00:00
Duration: 50 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok describes a $1,500 imaging test that shows your cardiac age compared to your actual age. He had a cardiac age 2 years older than his…

10 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok describes a $1,500 imaging test that shows your cardiac age compared to your actual age. He had a cardiac age 2 years older than his chronological age in 2018, then reduced it by 16 years through early intervention. Most insurers don't cover it, but family history of heart attacks makes it worth considering.

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About $1,500.

About one minute.

Yes — a very low dose of radiation and it uses contrast.

2018.

About 16 years.

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If you want to know if you're at risk for a heart attack in the future, which is really a big way to lengthen your life, is not to die of a heart attack, because we can see these decades in advance and we can intervene decades in advance. Your insurance company is not going to probably pay for any of this prevention. They might pay for some of this blood work. We have a clery machine in Outfield. There's other places around the country that do these. I think it's right around $1,500. That's about a one minute study. They do give you a very low dose of radiation, so safe amount of radiation. And there's a contrast. I have a family history of heart disease, what's called the heart attack gene. So when I started really checking, this was 2018, and my cardiac age was two years older than my personal age. That really concerned me because I'd been doing things to reverse my cardiac age without measuring it for a long time, and I was able to reverse that by about 16 years through intervention.