Heart Attack
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Malik: 14% of Men With ED Suffer Heart Attacks Within 7 Years
“Because of the guys who have ED, 14% of those guys will go on to have a heart attack in seven years.”
Dr. Min: A heart attack occurs every 40 seconds in the US
“In the U.S., there'll be somebody who suffers a heart attack every 40 seconds.”
90% of heart attacks are preventable with existing medical treatments
“90% of heart attacks are preventable. We, it's not that we lack the treatments. It's that we're just not identifying people soon enough so that we can prevent these events from happening.”
Not all arterial plaque is bad: stable plaque actually protects you
“We learned that not all plaque is bad. In fact, that some plaques are extremely dangerous for you and the strongest predictors of who will have a heart attack and others are actually Very stable and almost protected against having a heart attack in the future.”
Gerstner: Five Times More US Women Die From Heart Attacks Than Breast Cancer
“Five times as many women die of a heart attack each year in this country as die of breast cancer.”
Brit Morin: Clinical trial shows semaglutide reduces cardiovascular risk by 20%
“There was a new paper that came out that actually proved that there is a reduction of heart attack and stroke risk by 20% for those that have used Ozempic”
Turakhia: AI cannot predict acute heart attacks days in advance
“You can predict a cumulative probability, like a probability of getting condition X or diagnosis X over a time horizon of five or 10 years. But we are nowhere near saying, you know, you're going to have a heart attack in the next three days.”
Johns Hopkins researchers replaced heart attack scar tissue using banked stem cells
“At Johns Hopkins, they took these bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells, that same ones we store for you. And they grew them and introduced them into the damaged area of a person's heart after they had a heart attack. And they were able to grow healthy ti…”