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Thank you so much for posting this JimRed. I had a similar incident. I am as fit, active, and clean eating as they come. People comment ALL the time on the extraordinary dedication to both in my life. I went in to have a CT scan of my heart thinking no brainer. Although all my ventricles were clear the Left Descending Ventricle was show 80% calcification--the widow maker. It also show compared to females in my age group I was 90% worse and more likely to get cardiac disease!! Me the healthiest of them all!!

The reason I got the test at 51 (even though I look 32 and am as fit and healthy looking as well) is the people in my family who were obese or very much inactive and overweight had died suddenly in the last two years from heart attacks. They were siblings a decade older than me. So my primary felt this substantiated a family history of heart disease that I would not have been aware had these two passed. The good news is all my blood work (cholesterol etc) were exceptional great AND I am so fit my heart rate is very low because it is so well conditioned and efficient.

Yet. I still will be getting an echostress test to insure there are no other red flags. It also has allowed me to be more conscious of the amount of red meat and other high in saturated fat and cholesterol food are in my diet and to minimize them. It also solidifies just how important exercise and diet are as I age. As well as lowered stress levels.

Thanks again for sharing JimRed. Yours could be a life changing and saving post for many.