Heart-Related Tests Found to be Riskier When Not Needed
by Maejoy Tutor in Fitness on Aug 07, 2011
Stressed out doing tests to see if your heart is healthy? Then, there’s a reason to be scared apparently. An article in Consumer Reports magazine declared that heart disease tests may not be essential and may possibly create threats among patients.
Consumer Reports’ Dr. John Santa expressed that heart-related test such as angiograms could not be more effective as before than medication to manage heart-related diseases, noting that such procedure could activate heart attack to the patient.
Moreover, the magazine is recommending that cardiac CT scans may need to be considered relating to the threats showed by the radiation applied in the test and this could worth a lot of money.
Dr. Santa also recommended that for those who just wanted to know what their risks are, they should be undergoing a Heartsaver CT. There’s a great possibility that if someone looks for something that’s harmful could be too low in justifying the radiation’s dosage a patient can receive from a CT scan, and also its corresponding charge.
The organization also presented ways of monitoring a person’s heart health. This includes maintenance of an ideal weight, proper diet and exercise.
In 2006, CDC reported that the leading cause of death for both men and women is heart disease, noting that women are the most affected by such disease, claiming half of the deaths.
Furthermore, the agency also accounted that heart disease risk factors consist of diabetes, high cholesterol, smoking, high blood pressure, sedentary lifestyle and obesity.
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