Dhru Purohit

Do they have air pollution exposure?

No, everything checked.

Yeah, so then he could be genetically at a higher risk that's there.

I still feel that my audience, not that I'm advocating one direction or another, I have a tendency to think that a lot of people who listen are...

to this podcast, they're in that forward thinking area.

Just like there's new innovation that's available that still is not standard of care in traditional cardiology.

I've had a few cardiologists talk about it.

You know, we've had, you can get your calcium score, but that looks at hard, that looks at calcified plaque, right?

Hard plaque.

But increasingly through the evidence, people understand for cardiovascular disease that even a bigger risk is this soft plaque buildup that's there.

Now there's some questions about, do soft plaque and hard plaque correlate together?

And so looking at hard plaque is good enough.

But now that there are more abilities to do CCTA and companies like Clearly, No Affiliation, that can use AI imaging to get a snapshot of your soft plaque,

I've gotten it done for myself.

I've heard from many of my friends and podcast listeners.

Listen, insurance is not covering it out of pocket.

It's like $1,600, $2,000.

It's not a cheap test that's there.

But for somebody like me who has a history of cardiovascular disease, South Asians, Indians are at the highest risk for any ethnic minority.

I actually want to know is the lifestyle that I'm doing at the age of 43, 44 years old, am I...