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How Should We Evaluate Healthcare AI?(outofpocket.health)
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New blood pressure guidelines recommend earlier treatment and skipping alcohol(cnn.com)
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The FDA standard for blood oxygen sensing is within 6% absolute, 95% of the time. So variability in the sensing is pretty normal, and you want to look at long-term trends rather than individual measurements.
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This Deep Learning textbook by Ian Goodfellow is a good intro to the fundamentals: https://www.deeplearningbook.org/ It does require some math, but has an appendix with a refresher. Then, read through this list from Ilya
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Apple was in a patent dispute over this feature with Massimo. Their workaround is to calculate blood oxygen on the iPhone, using the sensors from Apple Watch. The Apple Watch hardware is otherwise the same. The back of the watch shines ligh
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by brandonb 1y ago
Apple was in a patent dispute over this feature with Massimo. Their workaround is to calculate blood oxygen on the iPhone, using the sensors from Apple Watch. The Apple Watch hardware is otherwise the same. The back of the watch shines ligh
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Apple returns blood oxygen monitoring to the latest Apple Watches(theverge.com)
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Smartwatches aren't confused about stress–but headlines and studies are(wareable.substack.com)
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Samsung's 'Preventative Care' on the Galaxy Watch 8(androidcentral.com)
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Am I Healthy? How to design a comprehensive health score(empirical.health)
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Study Finds Smartwatches Aren't That Good at Measuring Stress(gizmodo.com)
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Consequences and dangers of miscategorizing aging as a disease(frontiersin.org)
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In a study of 200,000 people, apolipoprotein B (apoB) and lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] give a much earlier and more accurate read on heart disease risk than the usual cholesterol tests. People with the same cholesterol level could have totally di
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New blood tests offer earlier and more accurate heart disease detection(thebrighterside.news)
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When does the body start aging? The answer may surprise you(usatoday.com)
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Poor sleep linked to 172 diseases, including dementia, Parkinson's, diabetes(medicalnewstoday.com)
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If you’re in the top quartile of Lp(a), your overall risk of heart disease is about 114% higher. This is because each Lp(a) particle is about 6x more atherogenic than a "normal" LDL particle.
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Lp(a) is another risk to your heart that's getting new attention(washingtonpost.com)
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Interview with ChatGPT Agent Creators(sequoiacap.com)
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Researchers adapted the PREVENT equations to calculate the age of your heart (published in JAMA Cardiology this week). The PREVENT equations are statistical models that predict your risk of a heart attack, stroke, or other cardiovascular ev
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Most Americans' hearts are older than their chronological age, new tool says(statnews.com)
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Deep Dive into Yann LeCun's JEPA(rohitbandaru.github.io)
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Scientists created a new calculator for heart age(washingtonpost.com)
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A Crisis Moment for Seed VC(nextview.vc)
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Why VC-backed longevity startups are dying(forbes.com)
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Co-Founder of the company (it's on my profile). Yes, you're right--of the biomarkers listed, only eGFR and HbA1c are standard in a routine health check.
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That panel costs $190 (and includes 85 biomarkers). FWIW, similar bundles I've seen online are priced at $400-$500. All 85 biomarkers, if purchased separately, would cost a total of $1,490. ApoB, for example, usually costs $60 if done
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I used to work with a cardiologist who joked that "we should just add statins to the water," so you have a point. The current guidelines for prescribing statins are based on your risk of a major cardiac event in the next 10 years
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Eric Topol has a cool post on "machine eyes" -- using deep learning to identify subtle signals in ECGs and medical images that would be invisible to the naked eye: https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-amazing-
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There's a clinical trial for a new drug, lepodisiran, which lowered Lp(a) by 93.9%. Outside of that, if your Lp(a) is high, then the first strategy would be to choose a lower ApoB target than you would otherwise. (Every Lp(a) particle

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