Thanks to the most advanced medical scanning technology, you can now get screened for the earliest stages of heart disease, common cancers and stroke risk. Disease can be detected even before symptoms are present, which is when management is most effective.
“From a cardiac point of view, we now do two scans,” says specialist radiologist Dr Mitch Kaplan. “We do a calcium score scan or a full coronary CT angiogram scan. The calcium score scan is the best predictor of a future coronary event available in medicine today, irrespective of pretext probability, irrespective of your lipids,
