Heart Disease: What Every Patient Over 50 Should Know
Why 'normal' labs can still hide advanced arterial disease — and the risk factors that matter most after 50.
Plain-language guides on cardiovascular risk, CIMT ultrasound, and the screenings that find disease early enough to change the outcome — written for practices and patients across Las Vegas, Henderson, and Southern Nevada.
Popular local topics: CIMT screening in Las Vegas, mobile ultrasound in Henderson, carotid ultrasound in Summerlin and North Las Vegas, and cash-pay preventive heart screening for Southern Nevada clinics.
Why 'normal' labs can still hide advanced arterial disease — and the risk factors that matter most after 50.
What carotid intima-media thickness actually measures, how the exam works, and how it compares to a CTA.
The screening timeline that finds cardiovascular disease years before a stress test or symptom ever would.
What an on-site CIMT screening day looks like for a Las Vegas, Henderson, or Summerlin practice.
How Henderson clinics — Green Valley, Anthem, Seven Hills — bring CIMT ultrasound in-house for a day.