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#361 Advanced Lipidology

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Is a Zero Calcium Score a Risk?

I was just going to ask a little bit about you know we talked about cat score a couple times now and I've definitely done this with a couple of my patients in my neck of woods it's 99 bucks out of pocket of insurance sudden paid for it so I often get these non-zero cat scores. In any non-zero score they have plaque they have disease so I start a statin but particularly in younger adults keep in mind that for example a 50 year woman should have a zero zero calcium score if she is over the 75th percentiles. So many of the risk enhancing factors you already know from their clinical history such as premature menopause or history of preeclampsia

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