EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. (WTEN) — A New York woman is crediting a quick, simple medical test with finding a potentially deadly cardiac concern, despite her having an otherwise healthy lifestyle.

“I was somebody who had no symptoms, no shortness of breath, no chest pain, nothing," Mickey Jenkins, of East Greenbush, explained to Nexstar's WTEN. "I usually walk about 20,000 steps a day."

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.

As part of a calcium score test, you undergo a CT scan, the Cleveland Clinic explains.

“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 long

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