Kaditz: Dentists often provide the first detection of asymptomatic heart disease
Jeff Kaditz · a16z Podcast | Health Data -- A Feedback Loop for Humanity · Jan 2, 2019 · at 15:50
Jeff Kaditz, founder of Q, highlights dental health as a rare example of continuous longitudinal data tracking successfully catching early systemic disease.
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“There are papers and research studies that show that there's a lot of diseases, you know, that somebody can be, you know, have no symptoms for like cardiac disease that dentists get the first look at cause it's correlated to gum disease.”
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