New test predicts heart disease years in advance by looking at fingers #Endothelialfunction

Now there’s a simple new test that possibly predicts heart disease years in advance not by looking at your heart, but your fingers.

“Endothelial function is the bomb. That’s the money,” “You can see endothelial dysfunction in 30 year olds. You can prevent a potential lifetime of distress and misery by correcting that,”

Medical Test Uses Fingers To Predict Heart Disease « CBS Los Angeles

Advanced heart stress tests raise cancer risks

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a diagnostic CT scan delivers 1 to 10 millisieverts of radiation. The FDA says a 10 millisievert dose raises the risk of dying from cancer to 1 in 2,000 -- far less than a person's overall lifetime risk of one in five.
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Disadvantages of CT Heart Scans
It fails to produce good images in people with a lot of calcium deposits in their arteries, Bonow says. It should not be used in people with chronic kidney disease or severely obese patients,
There are also concerns about cancer risks. According to a new study