Silent heart threat found in adults under 30 with no known cardiovascular disease

SO SOMEBODY FINALLY LOOKED INTO IT AND ABOUT ONE IN THIRTEEN PEOPLE UNDER THIRTY ALREADY HAS SILENT ARTERY CLOGGING PLAQUE AND THEY DO NOT EVEN KNOW IT WHICH IS WILD BECAUSE RESEARCHERS IN DENMARK AND SPAIN SCANNED OVER SIXTEEN THOUSAND HEALTHY ADULTS WITH NO HEART DISEASE HISTORY FOR THIS MASSIVE REACT STUDY AND OVER HALF OF EVERYONE TESTED HAD PLAQUE SOMEWHERE IN THEIR ARTERIES AND THE THING IS TRADITIONAL RISK SCORES TOTALLY MISSED A TON OF THEM BECAUSE FATTY DEPOSITS JUST BUILD UP IN SECRET FOR DECADES BEFORE A HEART ATTACK OR STROKE AND MEN APPARENTLY DEVELOP IT FIVE TO TEN YEARS EARLIER THAN WOMEN SO NOW SCIENTISTS ARE TESTING IF SCANNING PEOPLE DECADES EARLIER CAN ACTUALLY PREVENT IT BEFORE SYMPTOMS EVEN START.

NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT THIS ENOUGH FIRST RESEARCHERS IN DENMARK AND SPAIN SCANNED MORE THAN SIXTEEN THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED HEALTHY ADULTS USING ADVANCED IMAGING AND THEN PUBLISHED FINDINGS IN AUGUST SHOWING THAT OVER FIFTY-SEVEN PERCENT OF PARTICIPANTS HAD ARTERY PLAQUE DESPITE NO KNOWN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE WHICH IS WILD BECAUSE ABOUT ONE IN THIRTEEN PEOPLE AGES EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY-NINE ALREADY HAD SILENT ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND TRADITIONAL RISK SCORES MISSED MANY OF THOSE CASES AND THE THING IS MEN DEVELOPED PLAQUE FIVE TO TEN YEARS EARLIER THAN WOMEN WHILE WOMEN HAD THEIR STEEPEST INCREASE BETWEEN AGES FORTY AND SIXTY AND BY AGE SEVENTY ROUGHLY NINE IN TEN PEOPLE HAD IT SO NOW THE ONGOING REACT STUDY IS MOVING TO ITS NEXT PHASE TO TEST WHETHER DETECTING PLAQUE DECADES EARLY CAN IMPROVE HEART DISEASE PREVENTION.

A major international study found silent artery plaque in over half of healthy adults, including about one in 13 people under 30, often undetected by traditional risk scores.

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