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I had a cardiac mri - it came back perfect. would i benefit from a calcium scoring? i do have risk factors, but not sure if it tells the same things.

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Predicts your risk: Doing calcium scoring may help in calculating your future risk of cardiovascular disease. Why was cardiac MRI done? Some patients with family history of coronary artery disease may get calcium scoring done to predict there future risk . If you are at low risk based of co-morbidities and risk factors you don't need one.

Answered 6/10/2014

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A member asked:

I had a cardiac mri - it came back perfect. would i benefit from a calcium scoring? i do have risk factors, but not sure if it tells the same things.

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Dr. Nishant Kalra answered

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