Heart Attack Risk
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Cogent Family Healthcare
Stephen J Sims, MD
Family Medicine located in Mountain View, CA
More people die of heart attack and stroke than any other cause. South Asians have 60% of the world’s heart attacks, nearly 25% of those under age 40. Non-South Asians only have 1% of their heart attacks under age 45, so the risk factor calculators based on non-South Asian data are misleading.
Heart Attack Risk Q&A
What causes a heart attack?
Heart attacks, strokes, and other heart-related diseases are often the result of artery disease, known as atherosclerosis. This condition develops when cholesterol builds up in your arteries and hardens into plaque. This plaque can rupture, causing a sudden clot filling the artery, disrupting the blood flow to your heart, brain, and the rest of your body.
When deprived of oxygen-rich blood, the tissue dies in minutes.
What heart attack risk reduction services are available?
We provide the most accurate detection and treatment of all stages of the artery disease that causes heart attacks and strokes using a range of testing and monitoring from blood tests for advanced cholesterol parameters, non-cholesterol causes and rare causes when necessary, an earliest-stage pre-plaque detection using the radiation-free inexpensive and convenient in-office IMT ultrasound through cutting-edge FDA-approved coronary artery flow limitation and un-calcified plaque visualization with CCTA-FFR-QCPA when a higher expense and small radiation exposure are acceptable to the patient.
Treatment ranges from lifestyle change through blood test-based supplement choices and several statin and non-statin cholesterol-reducing medications when necessary. The result for nearly all patients is proof that you have stopped your artery disease from progressing towards a higher risk of heart attack, which standard cholesterol blood tests and treadmill testing does not do.
