Well person screening checks for thr heart

Hi there. Good morning. Some patients these days have sort of well person checks or screening checks of their heart. What does that entail and what can you have done? Yes sure, screening is definitely a very important chapter because this will help us prevent serious heart problems. We know that cardiovascular deaths are unfortunately the main cause of death in our days and and many cardiovascular death could be preventable if people would do more heart screenings. First of all, if you suffer from risk factors, you have risk factors like diabetes, hypertension, and smoke, we have family history of heart problems, you are at an increased risk compared to the general population who have heart problems. Therefore, you can go to a cardiologist who can request different tests. One is the echocardiogram, which is a heart ultrasound through which we see the heart muscle, the valves, how the heart contracts, and so we can see whether there are disease in the muscle of the heart. Then you can have a 24-hour Holter monitor, which is able to see whether you have an irregular heartbeat which could be dangerous. And then you can have a stress test, or a treadmill test, or an echo stress test, through which your heart is put under stress, and we see whether you have or not blocked arteries. Plus we do general blood tests regarding your cholesterol and other risk factors, triglycerides in your blood. So by doing all these battery of tests, we can identify an early stage disease of your heart and therefore we can give you the appropriate therapy. Remember, prevention is the best way to avoid and the progression of diseases. Thank you.