{"id":3468,"date":"2023-05-31T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T09:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilddiagnostik.de\/diagnostics\/heart\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T13:47:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T11:47:29","slug":"heart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bilddiagnostik.de\/en\/diagnostics\/heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Risk factors such as obesity, high cholesterol levels and high blood pressure are clearly associated with an increased risk of heart attack – as the Framingham study has shown. This applies to population groups. But not necessarily to individual cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was already clear around 20 years ago that the detection of deposits (atherosclerotic plaques) in the coronary arteries can predict an individual’s risk of heart attack – better than any other parameter.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The cardio-CT<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Cardio-CT<\/strong> provides precise information about deposits in your coronary arteries. With the help of the so-called calcification or Agatston score, the deposits can be quantified and the risk of suffering a heart attack within the next few years can be predicted relatively precisely, determining whether preventive therapy should be initiated.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A retrospective analysis of cardio-CT data from almost 14,000 patients has now shown that patients with an Agatston score of over 100 points benefit significantly from treatment with cholesterol-lowering drugs (statins).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The risk of a heart attack or stroke was reduced by 68 percent in these patients as a result of statin therapy. With a lime score above 400 points, the figure was 44 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was interesting to note that all patients with a positive calcium test result, i.e. an Agatston score of 1 or higher, benefited from statin therapy: In this group, the risk of a heart attack or stroke decreased by 24 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only in patients with a calcium score of 0, i.e. coronary arteries without deposits, statin treatment showed no positive effect.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Risk factors for a heart attack<\/h5>\n\n\n\n