This post is about heart disease. I've never considered myself at risk for heart disease. I'm 46, My blood pressure has always been normal 120/80, I don't have High Cholesterol (LDL is 124), no diabetes, I'm 5'll 225. My brother approached me over Christmas and said he rece y got something called a Calcium CT scan. He's 3 years older than I am. It measures calcium around your arteries and provides a score. Anything over 400 is considered high and points to plaque buildup and blockages. His came in over 500. He's in the 99th percentile for his age group.He then took one of those Ancestry DNA tests and ran the raw data through another tool and found he had 8 genetic markers for heart disease. So I'm spooked now. Last week I took the same Calcium CT test. My results came back today and my score is over 800. I don't know how many of you worry about these kinds of things, but I feel like I just got gut punched. I'm sure I'll be on some high dose statins shortly. Trying to lower my weight under 200. Not sure what else I can do at this point. Pretty bummed.