Dr. Paddy Barrett

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Preventing heart disease is possible. To prevent heart disease, you need to know what causes it, how to measure the relevant factors and what to do about them. When we say heart disease, what we really mean is plaque in the artery wall. 2021 Mar 23;77(11):1439-1450. You just need to know how.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JUNE 21, 2024

If you have an early family history of heart disease, there are specific steps you need to take to define if you have an increased risk and what to do about it. Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, and the probability of someone in your family having heart disease is likely to be high.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JANUARY 30, 2024

They knew they had not been doing all the things they should do, and they were worried that heart disease had them in its sights. Risk factors such as high blood pressure, smoking, and inactivity are important because the longer you are exposed to them, the higher the odds you will develop coronary artery disease sooner in life.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JANUARY 23, 2024

Over 80% of early heart disease is preventable. However, most adults will start to develop advanced plaque in their coronary arteries early in life. By age 66, more than half of all females will have evidence of advanced plaque in their coronary arteries, as seen on a CT calcium score. 2021 Dec 1;53(12):2512-2519.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

APRIL 5, 2024

Preventing or delaying the onset of coronary artery disease is a great strategy for living longer. The challenge is that the things you do to prevent heart disease are unlikely to pay dividends for a very long time—many years if not decades. This is a program that starts the day of your heart attack.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Reversing or regressing coronary artery disease is possible. You cannot eliminate the plaque entirely, but multiple clinical trials have shown plaque regression using high-intensity cholesterol-lowering treatments, which I have discussed previously. REVERSAL Investigators. 2004 Mar 3;291(9):1071-80.

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DAIC

JANUARY 3, 2024

Since its inception, HeartFlow has been committed to building a new standard of care for people at risk of heart disease. For over a decade, HeartFlow’s deep partnerships with more than 1,000 hospitals globally, including 80% of the top 50 heart hospitals in the U.S., Arbab-Zadeh, Heart Int 2012. Neth Heart J 2018.

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