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Dhru Purohit

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25425 total appearances

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Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

But overall, I tell people now, having your LDL and ApoB is shots on goal.

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

Do you really want to risk

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

That lifetime risk that's there, or do you get treatment or make massive changes now so you don't end up in that situation?

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

Do you think, what are your thoughts on that?

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

And how do you think that played into your story?

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

And to be fair to Dave Feldman and Nick Norwitz, who, again, I think are doing great work in areas of getting the science done.

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

You know, their response largely has been that, hey, there's some problems with solutions like Clearly, again, which is a CCTA.

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

It's an advanced technology.

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

AI enhanced sort of way of imaging of looking at not just hard plaque, like if people get a calcium score, it's also looking at soft plaque.

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

And I think there's some truth to it.

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

What they're saying is that that test compared to maybe other tests at looking at soft plaque tends to slightly overestimate.

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

I went through this with my dad.

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

My dad got a clearly test done because we have cardiovascular disease that runs in the family, Indian, everything else like that.

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

And I got my dad to start working with this cardiologist, Michael Twyman.

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

And we went in and did the full workup.

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

And part of that included blood work, Boston heart, et cetera, all this stuff, measuring blood pressure multiple times a day, grip strength.

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

He really takes it to the next level.

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

I really appreciate his practice.

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

And he got my data clearly scanned.

Dhru Purohit Show
This Doctor's Heart Attack Was A Wake Up Call: Here's What He Wants You to Know About Heart Disease with Dr. Jeremy London

And in that clearly scan, it showed that there was a 60% blockage in a couple of the major arteries in the heart.