CIMT (carotid intima media thickness) is an ultrasound of both sides of your carotid arteries. The CardioRisk protocol (which I follow as a nationally certified CardioRisk CIMT tech) through years and years of research has determined this to be the ‘danger zone’. If you are going to develop heart attack or stroke risk from atherosclerosis, this is the area (where) it will normally start and be seen in for early detection.
This painless, non invasive scan which has no needles, no radiation, no need to disrobe, will take about 20 minutes.
There is a 95% correlation between this area and what’s actually going on in your heart and in your brain. With that 95% correlation, this scan can predict with 98.6% accuracy your risk for heart attacks and strokes BEFORE they happen. This test saves more lives than mammograms, papsmears, colonoscopies, and PSA screenings for men COMBINED!