Heart and vascular disease prevention

To protect your heart, Park Nicollet Heart and Vascular Center offers several screening and prevention services that help detect heart and vascular disease early. This lets you make healthy lifestyle changes to prevent or control heart and vascular disease.

Understanding your risk factors

Understanding your risk is the first step in preventing and detecting heart disease. There are several controllable and noncontrollable causes of coronary artery and vascular disease. Learn your risk factors.

Screenings to protect your heart

Heart scan or coronary artery calcium screening

A heart scan, or coronary artery calcium scoring test, is a fast, painless screening test that assesses heart attack risk using the latest multislice computerized tomography. No referral needed. Cost: $250. Learn more about heart scans.

Women's heart screening

Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women. Fortunately, women have the power to prevent this disease. We offer a 90-minute personal heart risk screening with a clinician who specializes in women's heart care. That way, women can learn their risk of developing heart disease and what steps they can take to keep their health healthy. No referral needed. Cost: $99. Learn more about women's heart screening.

Vascular disease screening

Vascular disease, such as stroke and abdominal aortic aneurysm, is known as a silent killer because there often are no warning sings until it's too late. Find out if you are at risk for three serious vascular diseases with a quick, painless Park Nicollet vascular screening. Within 30-minutes, you'll learn your results and gain peace of mind. Your screening is performed by registered vascular technologists in the nationally certified Park Nicollet Heart and Vascular Center vascular lab. You will be screened for stroke, abdominal aortic aneurysm and peripheral artery disease. No referral needed. Cost: $150. Learn more about vascular disease screening (PDF).

Heart disease prevention clinic

Left undetected and untreated, coronary artherosclerosis, or coronary artery disease, is a progressive and relentless disease. Artherosclerosis must be slowed or ideally, stopped for heart patients to live long and full lives.

Our heart disease prevention clinic uses a team approach to educate patients and their families about effective lifestyle management and prescribes the most effective drug therapies.

Patients who have multiple risk factors for coronary heart disease or risk factors that have not responded to standard treatment can be referred by their primary doctor or other health care professional. Call 952-993-3246 for more information.