{"id":258,"date":"2024-12-19T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2024-12-19T16:20:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T16:20:35","slug":"heartsaver-ct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/2024\/12\/19\/heartsaver-ct\/","title":{"rendered":"HeartSaver CT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_6897-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_6897-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_6897-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_6897-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_6897-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_6897-676x901.jpg 676w, https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_6897-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m having a HeartSaver CT scan on Friday morning to check for heart disease, specifically for calcium deposits in my heart&#8217;s arteries. Sparing the details of a 2014 study where the conclusion was: &#8220;long-term male marathon runners may have paradoxically increased coronary artery plaque volume.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That means if I have significant calcium build-up in my heart&#8217;s arteries, I could drop dead at any moment from doing the thing that I love to do. Live by the sword, die by the sword, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My dad died way too young from heart disease. I want to hang on for as long as I can. And I haven&#8217;t run my best marathon yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks be to <a href=\"https:\/\/theamshakeout.kit.com\/posts\/the-morning-shakeout-issue-475\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mario Fraioli<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/semirad.substack.com\/p\/searching-the-heart-for-coronary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brendan Leonard<\/a> for inspiring me to take a step in checking up on my heart health and hopefully I can keep this engine humming  for some years to come. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a HeartSaver CT scan on Friday morning to check for heart disease, specifically for calcium deposits in my heart&#8217;s arteries. Sparing the details of a 2014 study where the conclusion was: &#8220;long-term male marathon runners may have paradoxically increased coronary artery plaque volume.&#8221; That means if I have significant calcium build-up in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.run\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}