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

Check out the latest Low Carb Conferences podcast as Dr. Jeffry Gerber interviews Khurram Nasir, MD who will be speaking at Low Carb Denver 2023, Feb 23-26, health & nutrition conference. Attend in-person or virtually. Register for discount tickets to the conference: lowcarbconferences.com/#tickets.
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In this podcast we discuss: CVD Risk Assessment and Coronary Artery Calcification Testing
Khurram is a preventive cardiologist and researcher. He is the Chief of Cardiovascular Prevention & Wellness at Houston Methodist Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is an associate editor for "Circulation" the journal and is on the board of directors for the American Society of Preventive Cardiology. He is well published in the literature with over 500 papers and he lectures all over the world. His particular professional interests include coronary atherosclerosis, non-invasive cardiac imaging including heart calcium scores, nutrition and prevention.
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[@mohammedsabahuddinmajid4786]

Massive gathering of good souls..God bless em all

[@vinodsomareddy7781]

Fantastic work guys!

[@petercyr3508]

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

[@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.