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by brandonb 1y ago
Interesting that you can do this in Greece. In the US, a doctor has the order the labs. (Direct-to-consumer lab testing technically exists, but is always ordered by a doctor.)
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by brandonb 1y ago
Can you expand more on why you'd want regular CRP over hs-CRP (specifically for cardiovascular risk)? For homocysteine, one proxy is B12 or folate (which are more cost-effective to test). To my knowledge, ESR is used in certain rheumat
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by brandonb 1y ago
That panel is $190.
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by brandonb 1y ago
Not a cardiologist, but adjacent to this type of research. I'm an MLE but have published research in cardiology.
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by brandonb 1y ago
This is a nicely-designed study. For decades, we've known that inflammation is a risk factor for heart attacks. In this study, the researchers designed a custom antibody that binds to oral bacteria. Then they used histological staining
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by brandonb 1y ago
The reason they do this is that their algorithm makes errors, and setting it this way means they can tune for a high specificity (giving up some sensitivity). The breathing disturbances notifications work in a similar way. They alert you to
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by brandonb 1y ago
Pretty comprehensive panels are available online for <$200: https://www.empirical.health/product/comprehensive-health-pa...
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Every 20 mmHg increase in your systolic blood pressure, or 10 mmHg increase in diastolic blood pressure, doubles your mortality. And only 23% of people with high blood pressure have it under control. Pretty massive implications for public h
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by brandonb 1y ago
It doesn't give you a blood pressure number -- just alerts if it thinks you have high blood pressure. I wrote a bit about the science of blood pressure on the wrist here: https://www.empirical.health/blog/apple-wat
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Apple expects to notify 100M people that they have hypertension in a year(appleinsider.com)
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Apple launching 8 new products on Tuesday, here's what's coming(9to5mac.com)
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Foundation Models for Biosignals: A Survey(techrxiv.org)
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Visual representations in the human brain are aligned with LLMs(nature.com)
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Interview with US Digital Service's First Administrator(usdigitalserviceorigins.org)
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How to calculate your heart attack risk with <$200 of blood tests(empirical.health)
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Coalition for Metabolic Health Launches with $50M(coalitionformetabolichealth.org)
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Survey of Deep Learning and Foundation Models for Time Series Forecasting(arxiv.org)
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Nutrition Myths Experts Wish Would Die(nytimes.com)
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Algorithmic consultant: a new role for clinical AI(nature.com)
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by brandonb 1y ago
Part of the mechanism is that potassium lowers your blood pressure, whereas sodium raises it. High blood pressure slowly damages the cardiac walls, leading to less blood flow, which impairs kidney function, which leads to less effective fil
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Guide to Contrastive Learning: Techniques, Models, and Applications(medium.com)
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Potassium-rich diet may cut risk of heart failure by 24%(theguardian.com)
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Are A.I. Tools Making Doctors Worse at Their Jobs?(nytimes.com)
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AI Doctors Won't Work for Free(8vc.com)
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PCSK9 inhibitors are advanced drugs for heart disease that cost $5,850 per year. They use a different mechanism than statins. While this FDA approval for primary prevention doesn't guarantee insurance coverage, it's one more step
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First PCSK9 Inhibitor Approved for Blanket Prevention of Heart Disease(medpagetoday.com)
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What Happens When Blood Pressure Drops Below 120(scitechdaily.com)
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Health insurance prices likely to rise next year(pbs.org)
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Elon Musk's XAI Sues Apple over Claims It Favors OpenAI(nytimes.com)
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The paper's original title is 66 characters too long for HN. The "25% higher mortality" comes from the all-cause mortality result in "Findings", which is one of the main results of the paper. The paper expresses it

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