Dr. Paddy Barrett

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Even those who are pulled forward in their diagnosis of type 2 diabetes still get a significant reduction in the risk of heart disease. This is about estimating your near-term risk of a heart attack. This also means that if you have a CAC score of 0, you have no calcified plaque in your coronary arteries.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

The Heart Health Formula is made up of 3 main modules. The Understanding Heart Disease module includes lessons on: Why The Standard Model Is Broken. Understanding Heart Disease. Heart Attack versus Heart Disease. Heart Disease Starts Earlier Than You Think. What Is Health?

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JANUARY 2, 2025

What is inside the Heart Health Formula? A step-step guide to: - Understanding Heart Disease. Defining Heart Disease Risk. Reducing Heart Disease Risk. The Heart Health Formula is made up of 3 main modules. Understanding Heart Disease. Heart Attack versus Heart Disease.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The Heart Health Formula is the process I use to: Understand a person’s risk of heart disease using the best science available. With the ultimate goal that all of my patients (Myself included) live a long and healthy life and die with, not from, heart disease. Understanding Heart Disease.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JANUARY 30, 2024

. ‘ Snipers Alley ’, it turns out, is an age between 40-60, where mostly males were having fatal heart attacks. These patients were not overly bothered about having a heart attack at age 80, but usually, one of their friends, aged 52 or so, had just had a heart attack, and they did not want to be next.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 1, 2023

CT coronary angiography, in addition to a CT CAC, is arguably the best test for estimating whether someone has evidence of coronary artery disease and what that means for their near-term risk of a heart attack. This article is part 2 of a series on cardiac CT. And that requires a slightly different approach.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In general, the more calcified or fibrous a plaque is, the less dangerous it is, as it is less likely to rupture and cause a heart attack. Fatty or necrotic plaque is often described as ‘vulnerable’ plaque, with the vulnerability being related to the risk of a heart attack. Billings, J.H.; Scherwitz, L.W.;

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