After the sudden death of WSB traffic reporter Captain Herb Emory of a heart attack there is an effort underway to have his listeners takes steps to protect themselves from heart disease.
An electron beam CT scan (EBT) is 98 percent accurate in ruling out coronary artery disease. A heart screen shows calcified plaque that may build up inside the arteries and block the blood flow that supplies the heat.
Scott McLaren with Virtual Imaging in Atlanta says heart scans should be routine. McLaren says, "If everybody in the country was doing that starting at thirty years old we would have very minimum deaths of heart disease."
The EBCT scan is recommended by The American Heart Association and The American College of Cardiology.
He says out of all the people they say only about 30 percent have no plaque build-up in their arteries. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. Every year about 720 thousand American have a heart attack. Of these, 515 thousand are a first heart attack and 205 thousand happen in people who have already had a heart attack.
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