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Kaditz: Annual physicals show no correlation with better patient health outcomes
“If you think about what the annual physical consists of, and actually if you ask most physicians and most research, there is actually no real correlation between outcomes and consistently doing annual physicals.”
Kaditz: Physiological states contain a million trillion times more information than genomes
“The best estimates we have for a complete representation of your physiological state at a point in time Is that it's a million trillion times more information.”
Kaditz: Somatic DNA replication transfers 500 terabytes of data per second
“I think the data transfer rate of somatic DNA in your body is about 500 terabytes per second.”
Kaditz: Dental care costs fell in real terms while healthcare skyrocketed
“If you look at the cost of dental care over time, it's flat or down in inflation-adjusted dollars, and the quality of the care has gone up. If you look at over the exact same period of time in healthcare, it's the exact opposite trend.”
Kaditz: Dental care costs are flat or falling while oral health quality improves
“By most metrics, even adjusted for inflation, the cost of dental care is staying flat or going down. But at the same time, the quality of our dental health is going up”
Kaditz: Most lethal diseases reach advanced stages before symptoms appear
“Most of the most lethal diseases, by the time you're symptomatic, you're in an advanced stage.”
Kaditz: Discarding raw medical data prevents the building of predictive models
“Like right now in medicine, a lot of times we store the result of a diagnostic, but we don't keep the measurement, which actually prohibits us from going back and building models that, you know, in reusing the measurement.”
Kaditz: Dentists often provide the first detection of asymptomatic heart disease
“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.”