Northwest Health – Porter Offers Affordable Heart Scan: Calcium Scoring Screening
9/27/2022
Northwest Health – Porter now offers an affordable heart scan. The heart scan is a noninvasive, painless cardiac calcium scoring scan that measures the extent of plaque buildup in the coronary arteries. The 30-minute procedure can help predict coronary events such as heart attacks, as well as assist with detecting heart disease in the early stages.
If you are age 40 or older and have one or more of the following risk factors, this test might be beneficial to you.
- Family history of early heart disease, heart attack or stroke
- Diabetes
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Are a smoker
- Obesity and/or prolonged inactivity
- Stress
To get started, call 219-983-5812 on Tuesday or Thursday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. to take the free heart health assessment. Cash or credit must be paid at time of service. Insurance will not be billed.
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