Even if you’re super fit and exercise a lot, having calcium buildup in your heart arteries still means you’re at higher risk for a heart attack or needing a stent.

Even if someone is a super-athlete, having calcium buildup in their heart arteries still means they’re at higher risk for a heart attack—exercise doesn’t cancel out this danger.

If you have calcium in your heart arteries, you’re at higher risk for a heart attack—even if you’re a marathon runner. Exercise doesn’t make that calcium harmless.

If an athlete has a high calcium score on a heart scan (over 100), doctors should treat them like someone with early heart disease — lower their bad cholesterol and test how their heart handles exercise.

Even in healthy middle-aged Americans with no calcium in their heart arteries, higher 'bad' cholesterol levels are linked to more plaque buildup in the heart's blood vessels.

Even if middle-aged Americans seem healthy and have low heart disease risk, over 30% still have hidden plaque in their arteries — and most of them have a heart scan score of zero, meaning standard checkups might miss early warning signs.