Take the new NCEP guidelines test and get a heartscan
by clicking
here.
Should you be on a cholesterol lowering medication by
this calculator? How can the EBT test help your doctor make that decision?
The new NCEP guidelines allow physicians to calculate
the expected 10 year risk of future heart attack episodes by examining
the presence and control of certain conventional risk factors.
For example, if it is determined that you have greater
than a 20% risk over the next 10 years, doctors are encouraged to
treat you to the same aggressive standards that are usually reserved
for those who have had previous heart attacks (including getting the
LDL cholesterol below 100). However, recent studies prove that those
recommendations are often incorrect for INDIVIDUALS as measured by
electron beam tomography. We believe it is worth the investment to
know whether you should be treated or left untreated for a lifetime
based upon population statistics —and that requires a heartscan.
