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Title: Half of All Heart Attacks Happen to People with Normal Cholesterol. Vitals Vault's New CT Scan Detects the Disease Blood Tests Can Miss

Seattle, WA, United States, 4th Apr 2026 - Vitals Vault, the health intelligence platform offering 1,000+ lab tests and AI-driven clinical analysis, has launched the Complete Metabolic Heart Scan: a CT-based screening program that directly detects cardiovascular and metabolic disease rather than estimating risk from blood markers alone.The scan is led by Dr. Robert Lufkin, MD — Vitals Vault's Chief Medical Officer, former UCLA and USC medical school professor, and New York Times bestselling author of Lies I Taught in Medical School. It is available nationwide through imaging partner centers in all 50 states, typically within 30 minutes of a patient's home.Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death globally. Yet the standard screening approach — cholesterol panels, family history questionnaires, and risk calculators — relies on probability models. Roughly half of all heart attacks occur in individuals whose cholesterol levels were within normal range."Traditional blood and genetic tests estimate your risk. This scan shows whether the disease is already there," said Dr. Lufkin. "Calcified plaque in the coronary arteries is not a prediction. It's a finding. And it changes the clinical conversation entirely."One Scan. Three Reports. A Complete Metabolic Picture.The Complete Metabolic Heart Scan delivers three critical assessments from a single, non-invasive 15-minute CT study:1. CT Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) ScoreThe CAC score measures calcified plaque in the coronary arteries — offering direct visualization of atherosclerosis that blood panels cannot detect. Widely regarded as one of the strongest independent predictors of future cardiac events, the CAC score separates individuals who have early-stage disease from those who don't, regardless of cholestero...

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