Can You Reverse Heart Disease? What My Plaque Scans Showed | Dr Campbell Rogers

In late 2024 a CT scan revealed a small amount of soft plaque in my arteries. Sixteen months later I scanned again, and my plaque volume had dropped by around forty percent. In this episode I ask the cardiologist behind the technology whether a result like that can really be trusted.

Dr Campbell Rogers is an interventional cardiologist, a former Harvard faculty member who ran the cath lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and now Chief Medical Officer at Heartflow.

What we cover:

The difference between a calcium score, a CT coronary angiogram, and AI plaque analysis

Why a calcium score of zero does not mean you are free of disease

What my own scans showed, and why Campbell believes the result

Soft versus calcified plaque, and why calcification can be a sign of stabilisation

Treating the plaque you can see rather than just an ApoB number

Who should consider getting scanned, and the honest trade-offs

This is a conversation about seeing a disease we used to only guess at, held with the right amount of scientific humility. If you want to understand your own heart health, I think it is well worth your time.

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To connect with Dr Campbell Rogers, visit Heartflow.