What brought you here
Heart disease runs in my family
A family history of heart disease is one of the risk factors you cannot change, which makes it a reason to pay closer attention to the ones you can.
What matters most is the detail: which relative, how closely related, and how young they were. Coronary disease in a first-degree relative at a young age carries considerably more weight than the same diagnosis at eighty.
A risk assessment brings that together with blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose and smoking history. Where the picture is unclear, imaging that looks directly at the arteries can help move a person out of the middle ground.
This page is general information, not medical advice. It explains what a cardiologist would usually look at. It cannot tell you what is causing your symptoms. If you have severe or sudden chest pain, call 000.
What would usually be considered
The investigations that answer this question.
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