Via e-mail yesterday, I learned about the Association for Eradication of Heart Attack. In June, their main project – S.H.A.P.E., Screening for Heart Attack Prevention and Education – will publish an executive summary of the SHAPE task force report in the American Journal of Cardiology.
Primarily, they are proposing to identify close to 65 million asymptomatic individuals vulnerable to first heart attacks by detecting subclinical atherosclerosis and documenting risk factors.

Screen all men aged 45 and older, women aged 55 and older
Test for atherosclerosis by determining coronary calcium score via CT scan or carotid artery intima-media thickness via ultraound …read more