A new scan to detect and cure the commonest cause of high blood pressure
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#2I hope they make a lot of money. That’s a pretty fantastic system.
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#3Can someone who knows more about the field to comment on whether this is as revolutionary as it sounds?
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#4I wonder if US healthcare with its profusion of CT scanners can drive down long term patient treatment costs faster with their greater installed base.
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#5Hilariously, I think the HN anti-clickbait filter made this title more clickbaity: The original title was "Ten-minute scan enables detection and cure of the commonest cause of high blood pressure", which HN helpfully removed the number from... leading to "Minute scan detects and cures of most common cause of high blood pressure". And a one minute scan would be even more impressive, but that's not what it is...
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#61 in 20 is "most"? What about the other 19 in 20?
I was under the impression that the most common cause was being fat.
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#8Hilariously, I think the HN anti-clickbait filter made this title more clickbaity: The original title was "Ten-minute scan enables detection and cure of the commonest cause of high blood pressure", which HN helpfully removed the number from... leading to "Minute scan detects and cures of most common cause of high blood pressure". And a one minute scan would be even more impressive, but that's not what it is...
They should still have some time to edit the description. If that time is exceeded they could email dang and ask to edit. The filter only happens on submission but not on edit.
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#9Looks like the cure is surgery, and with the sorry state of the US healthcare, that's hardly a solution.
Re: A new scan to detect and cure the commonest cause of high blood pressure
#10I hope they make a lot of money. That’s a pretty fantastic system.
The work was funded by the NIHR (i.e. the UK taxpayer); the primary purpose is patient benefit to users of the NHS, not profit. If they're making a disproportionate "lot of money", there should be a signed revenue-sharing agreement in place given the benefit of the public funds provided.