So there's a new kid on the block it's called coronary CTA or CTA or CT angiography
if you look at things like the PROMISE trial or the SCOT-HEART trial they show a lot of promise
with this and as you begin to look at these images you see gosh yeah those are really nice images in
fact at this point I've had several conversations with several patients who have these and here's
what they tell me they say you know what it's great I put a copy of it on my refrigerator door
so now when I go in to start thinking about getting a snack maybe don't really need this
helps motivate me and helps me understand now when you actually start looking at the science itself
it makes a case for the same thing so what happened for example with the SCOT-HEART
trial was this here's what they did they randomized people to doing whatever they did
for a standard the cardiologist was used to and as we know that's almost always going to be some
kind of stress test usually nuclear stress tests followed by angiography but what they did on these
trials like the SCOT-HEART trial was they said go ahead and do what you normally do cardiologists
however add for the study group add CT angiogram and for the others don't well what happened was as
you can see here this is really good at showing pathology showing that you have plaque so the
people that were in the study group they got the CT angiogram in the beginning they were listed
as having a lot more pathology they knew from the randomization procedure and they knew from
what was you know just from understanding what we've just discussed they really didn't that was
a randomization issue but it was just much more obvious because of the CT angiogram so were there
a lot more procedures a little bit more procedures in the beginning with the CT angiogram patients
but over a five-year period that all equaled out and there were the same number of procedures the
same number of everything else from the medical side but still there are significant decrease
repeat heart attacks for the folks that had the CT angiogram any ideas why that might have happened
again think about it go back to the story about patients gosh I've got a significant plaque I'm
gonna put that on my door that's what happened these patients that actually had this understood
very well that they had significant plaque they could see it it was right there in front of their
eyes major motivator for improving lifestyle other folks on the other hand get a stress test
things like that they really don't get as good a picture of just what's going on inside their
arteries so and in fact quite often they'll get false negative stress tests up to a third of the
negative stress tests are false as well so again you just depend on stress tests you're likely to
say you know what I'm glad I got over that and I didn't have a problem you got to be feeling
lucky to do that the negative stress tests just like a positive stress test they're not that
reliable
why wait for a disease and hope for a cure I used to be an ER doc my name is Ford Brewer
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into the ER are things that should have been prevented including heart attack stroke number
one cause of death number one cause of permanent disability people think that you're just gonna
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