Risk Assessments
The Muriel I. Kauffman Women’s Heart Center offers several heart risk panel options for your proactive interest and investment in your heart health.
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These tests assist us in collectively assessing your overall heart health:
- Fasting Lipid Profile: total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL (good), LDL (bad), ratio
- Glucose (blood sugar): random fasting blood sugar level -- risk for diabetes
- Thyroid Stimulating Hormone: reflects thyroid function and body metabolism
- Hemoglobin A1C: provides average blood sugar level during past 3 months -- risk for diabetes
- Fibrinogen: may indicate an existing inflammatory process and thickness of blood
- C-Reactive Protein: may reflect existing inflammation in the heart arteries
- Lipoprotein (a): a specific type of cholesterol that is genetically linked to early heart disease
- CardioScan: this non-invasive computerized automated tomography (CAT) scan is a calcium scoring examination that detects existing hard calcified plaque in the coronary arteries
- Body Composition Analysis: a summary of basal metabolic rate (number of calories you burn per day at rest) and the physical makeup of your body to include water, lean muscle and body fat percentage)
Source: Muriel I. Kauffman Women's Heart Center.