Ticker: Don't die of heart disease
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#2I love this sort of documentation-style guide to medical issues. Reminds me of https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/
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#3Tl;dr be affluent enough to be able to afford great medical care and have enough free time for preventative actions
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#4It is a long read and I want to make time for it. Quick search check and calc (for calcify etc.) and diet appear alot in the article which is not surprising based on other things I have watched on the subject.
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#5The title of the article says "don't die of heart disease", but given that we all have to die at some point, if you could choose what natural cause to die of, wouldn't you pick heart disease? It is the best way to die. The worst is stroke. So once you cross a certain age, say 60, don't worry about heart disease, worry instead about stroke.
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#6Fabulous information, but lacking information isn’t the issue. The behavioral changes are obvious and well evangelized : lose weight, regular activity (walking), and if necessary, take meds. (Yes I know your marathon runner cousin who died suddenly of a heart attack, but these are still your best odds)
Telling people what to do rarely fixes anything. People need dozens of impressions for those changes to sink in. Friends, family, social outings, commercials, movies, songs all promoting overindulgence won’t be overcome with a helpful pamphlet or nagging.
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#7Tl;dr be affluent enough to be able to afford great medical care and have enough free time for preventative actions
I think the point is it is cheap to prevent. The weird tip is doing a different test to the standard one, which costs little for typical HNers (but admit every $ counts for many people esp. with current inflation, poverty, bad governance) but sounds like on par with a dentist doing anything beyond a checkup.
Re: Ticker: Don't die of heart disease
#8The title of the article says "don't die of heart disease", but given that we all have to die at some point, if you could choose what natural cause to die of, wouldn't you pick heart disease? It is the best way to die. The worst is stroke. So once you cross a certain age, say 60, don't worry about heart disease, worry instead about stroke.
Why is heart disease a “good” cause of death?
Re: Ticker: Don't die of heart disease
#9The title of the article says "don't die of heart disease", but given that we all have to die at some point, if you could choose what natural cause to die of, wouldn't you pick heart disease? It is the best way to die. The worst is stroke. So once you cross a certain age, say 60, don't worry about heart disease, worry instead about stroke.
Funnily enough, the things you can do to prevent stroke line up entirely with the things you can do to avoid heart disease.
Re: Ticker: Don't die of heart disease
#10Fabulous information, but lacking information isn’t the issue. The behavioral changes are obvious and well evangelized : lose weight, regular activity (walking), and if necessary, take meds. (Yes I know your marathon runner cousin who died suddenly of a heart attack, but these are still your best odds) Telling people what to do rarely fixes anything. People need dozens of impressions for those changes to sink in. Fri…
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