Do statins reduce heart scan scores?

If you have a CT heart scan score (also called coronary calcium score), what effect do statin cholesterol drugs have on stopping or slowing the increase in score? (Increasing scores pose increasing risk for heart attack and other cardiac events.)
NONE. If you do nothing at all, the score increases by 25% per year, on average. If you take a statin drug, aspirin, and follow a low-fat diet, what my colleagues call “optimal medical therapy,” the score increases . . . 25% per year—no difference. Yet this is the “solution” that conventional doctors push on their patients, a “treatment” that yields little to no benefit.
The real tragedy? There are a number of easily accessible, inexpensive, and effective strategies that can stop the increase in heart scan scores, even reduce the score and, with it, reduce or eliminate risk for heart disease—but the answers won’t come from your doctor.

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Let’s talk about whether statin cholesteral drugs can reduce a heart scan score. Statin cholesterol drugs are drugs like Lipitor®, Crestor®, Zocor®, or other drugs, non-statin drugs that reduce total LDL cholesterol. Heart scan scores are sometimes called coronary calcium scores, and all they are is an index, or gauge, of the volume of atherosclerotic plaque in your heart’s arteries — the stuff that ruptures, and causes heart attacks, or worsens, grows, and causes chest pain that leads to things like stress testing, he...

Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 7, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open cholesterol coronary calcium ct scan do statin drugs reduce heart scan scores reduce coronary calcium reverse coronary calcium reverse heart disease undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs