EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- An East Greenbush woman said a simple medical test helped save her life. Now she and her doctor want to share a critical message about heart health. “I was somebody who had no symptoms, no shortness of breath, no chest pain, nothing. I usually walk about 20,000 steps a day,” said Mickey Jenkins.

But after a close friend suffered a heart attack Mickey said she asked her doctor for a calcium score test to take a closer look at her own cardiac health. “You lay in the machine. It goes in the first time they say, ‘Take a deep breath’, it comes out. You go a second time, take a deep breath, you're done. It took me longer to walk down the hallway than it did to get in the machine to get the test,” explained Jenkins.

The results of the test are fast. Mickey's doc

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