Middle-aged people with subclinical heart disease face a much higher risk of a surprise heart attack.
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“Computed tomography is a key tool available today that permits us to see beneath the surface and identify atherosclerosis in its subclinical phase,” Tomey said. How else would you know if you had subclinical heart disease? You wouldn't, added Dr. David Newby, the British Heart Foundation's John Wheatley Professor of Cardiology at the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
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