Low Carb Conferences Podcast with Khurram Nasir, MD: CVD Risk and Coronary Artery Calcification

[@mohammedsabahuddinmajid4786]

Massive gathering of good souls..God bless em all

[@vinodsomareddy7781]

Fantastic work guys!

[@chrisschwab8313]

This one kind of spooked me since I recall my heart calcium score wasn't looking so good - and I have a strong family history of heart attacks (had one myself). However I did quite a bit of running compared to the average person before I injured my knee in a fall. So I''m hoping the prior running and being on a low carb diet is going to protect me from the family curse. I did find this about endurance athletes: "Despite having more calcium, athletes exercising >3000 MET-min/week (sounds like energy output) had no increase in mortality compared with individuals performing 1500-3000 and

[@petercyr3508]

Like a good engineer, I have been playing with the MESA CAC data and see some interesting things. Score is a strong function of age, or scores are not evenly distributed across all ages. A "normal" score is zero or very low up until a man is in his 60s and a woman in her 70s. This tells me the 60s and 70s are the critical years for developing disease. Also tells me a score of zero at age 45 or 50 doesn't mean much other than you are normal.

[@petercyr3508]

Pretty sure Dr Nasir's name is on my first CAC scan report.