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brandonb
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About brandonb
Co-Founder at Empirical Health (https://empirical.health). Don't die of heart disease.
Before: Co-Founder @ Cardiogram (ML for heart health)
CTO at Sift Science (YC S11, machine learning to fight fraud)
Data Science @ UCSF Cardiology
HealthCare.gov rescue team
Google (Android speech recognition, search ads ML)
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Previous studies have shown that heart health at 50 predicts brain health at 75. This study is interesting in that it quantifies the benefit as 12.5 extra dementia-free years. Peop…
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Comment #49213132
Blood pressure is a major input into the risk equations for heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease, and so on. For the most part we've used a one-time measurement, assuming it's an…
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Comment #49124523
We've known for a while that inflammation is an independent risk factor for heart disease, alongside LDL cholesterol (or ApoB), Lp(a), and so on. Inflammation is most commonly meas…
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Comment #49112020
(OP) The first oral macrocyclic peptide was approved by the FDA two weeks ago. It's a cholesterol-lowering drug, the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor -- current PCSK9 inhibitors are inje…
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Comment #49110214
FWIW, several YC startups have also published ML research--there were several of us at the last NeurIPS. So perhaps this is a niche that startups can occupy if the big labs don't.
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