Originally Posted by Biker395

Thank you! Yea, that's me ... looking younger than I am through the wonders of Photoshop. lol

My GP is very thorough. My risk factors are significant, but all have caveats:

Family History: I'm in my early 60s. My Dad died of a massive MI when he was in his late 60s. But then again, he was a 2 pack a day smoker all his life and with much of that on one lung. He got zero exercise and didn't eat well, either. My brother had a series of strokes in his 50s, but he was morbidly obese, diabetic, ate terribly, and was taking megadoses of vitamin K to try to stop the bleeding in his eyes.

Blood Pressure: Every time I go to the doc, my BP is high ... like in the order of 135-155. But the caveat is that it goes down to 115-120 by the time I've left. And the lower number is consistently low.

Enlarged Heart: Abmoral EKG. Huge spikes ... higher than the doc has ever seen (last time, he looked at it and quipped that it had to be some kind of a record ... it was off the scale). But it has been looked at with ultrasound and is not enlarged. The spikes are some kind of strange anomaly.

Cholesterol: Borderline. Sometime below guidelines, sometimes above.

So he suggested the stress test, which showed nothing, so we did the CT angiogram. That was done at a cardiac center that throught I was an interesting subject (with the combination of some family history but healthy habits), so I have been asked to participate in a number of clinical trials (and I usually say yes to those).