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One of the best kept secrets in healthcare: The diameter of your thoracic aorta
05 August 2026

One of the best kept secrets in healthcare: The diameter of your thoracic aorta

Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis

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Many people have had an echocardiogram, CT heart scan, or other imaging test of their heart or chest during which an enlarged ascending thoracic aorta was identified--but you are almost NEVER told. Yet an enlarged aorta is a diseased aorta that puts you at risk over time of aneurysm rupture, dissection, both of which are catastrophic, and "mini-strokes" from fragmentation of atheroclerotic plaque. 

Here is how to know whether this applies to you and, if it does, what you can do about it. 

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