Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States; and currently one of every two deaths in America is related to heart disease.
Heart disease is also a silent killer. According to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention, someone in the U.S. suffers a coronary event every 25 seconds. Because heart disease often strikes without warning or symptoms, many people do not know they are at risk until it is too late.
So how do you stay ahead of this deadly disease? Consider a HeartScan — a simple, non-invasive test— and it's available at seven convenient St.Vincent Health locations: St.Vincent Heart Center of Indiana in Carmel; St.Vincent Heart Center of Indiana in Indianapolis; St.Vincent Medical Center Northeast in Fishers; Saint John's Health System in Anderson; St.Vincent Jennings Hospital in North Vernon; St.Vincent Williamsport in Williamsport; and St.Joseph Hospital in Kokomo.
Quick and painless, a HeartScan is conducted with a non-invasive CT scanner, which allows doctors at St.Vincent to scan images of your heart's arteries and examine them for hardened plaque — one of the early warning signs of heart disease. If you need treatment, doctors can then offer a full range of options and suggest lifestyle changes to decrease your risk of heart disease and heart attack.
And a HeartScan is affordable at $49. St.Vincent also recommends men and women over the age of 40 to talk with your physician about having a HeartScan to determine if this is right for you.
If you have not been giving your heart the TLC it deserves, now may be the ideal time to get serious about your heart health.
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