| Obesity, diabetes, hypertension, high lipid level, smoking, stress, and sedentary life style can lead to ischemic heart disease. Anyhow, the narrowing process of heart blood vessels may have started many years ago. Besides the gold standard, cardiac catheterization, advanced CT scanners (such as 64-slice and 320-slice CT scanners at AIMC) and sophisticated software can do non-invasive cardiac angiography to detect the narrowed blood vessels in the heart with more than 90% accuracy and 97% specificity. |
