Ultrasound Device May Help Detect Risk for Heart Attack, Stroke

How soon before your doctor tests you with this? I obviously had vulnerable plaque.
http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2014/04/ultrasound-device-may-help-detect-risk-heart-attack-stroke?
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed an ultrasound device that could help identify arterial plaque that is at high risk of breaking off and causing heart attack or stroke.

 

At issue is the plaque that builds up in arteries as we age. Some types of plaque are deemed “vulnerable,” meaning that they are more likely to detach from the artery wall and cause heart attack or stroke.