CAD Prevention in NJ: More Than 'Eat Better'
Every year, the advice sounds familiar: eat better, exercise more, manage stress. Your cholesterol levels fall within range. Your EKG shows no abnormalities. On paper, everything looks fine. Yet, many health-conscious professionals remain uneasy—and rightly so. Increasingly, seemingly healthy individuals are experiencing unexpected cardiac events despite passing routine screenings. The core issue lies in how traditional preventive cardiology operates. It is largely reactive, waiting for symptoms to appear or for markers like cholesterol to cross predefined thresholds. By the time chest pain or other warning signs emerge, coronary artery disease (CAD) may have already been developing silently for years. Standard cardiovascular screening focuses on basic indicators such as total cholesterol, LDL, blood pressure, and resting heart rhythm. While useful, these metrics often fail to detect early-stage disease. They do not reveal soft plaque buildup in arteries, measure the number of ather...