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Medical Imaging Emerging Trends in 2021

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Emerging Trends of Medical Imaging in the Healthcare Sector Chronic diseases are thriving expeditiously. Identify accumulated blood clots that can result in heart diseases, cancer, or emphysema. Cancer patients are increasing worldwide, which projects the need for more imaging devices and software.

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The Data For Weight Loss Medications Just Keeps Pouring In.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

The reason excess weight is such big issues are the health consequences it confers with increased rates of diabetes, heart disease, osteoarthritis, obstructive sleep apnea, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and others, just to name a few. Now imagine that happening over 30 times. Every hour. N Engl J Med. 2024 Jun 8.

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How To Reduce The Risk Of Heart Disease If You Have Insulin Resistance.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

There are many things you want to avoid to prevent heart disease, but type 2 diabetes and extreme insulin resistance needs to be right up there at the top of that list. Avoiding diabetes and being at the other end of the scale of insulin resistance does not preclude you from getting heart disease.

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Living Past 100: Insights from Centenarians on a Long, Healthy Life

Dr. Paddy Barrett

They get the diseases of ageing about 20 to 25 years later than everyone else. It’s not that they don’t get cardiovascular disease, cancer or dementia; they just get it way later than everyone else. Most adults, healthy centenarians included, will die from one of three things: Cardiovascular Disease.

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Why Exercise Is The Key To A Longer Life

Dr. Paddy Barrett

While I have covered many of these fitness measures individually in previous posts, I wanted to summarise these metrics and how they relate to living longer and preventing major diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia. 6 Heart-rate recovery immediately after exercise as a predictor of mortality.

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Decoding Longevity. How To Not Die. Young

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia account for 60% of all deaths in the US. Let’s start with Cancer. Compared to those who had ‘Low’ lifestyle scores, those with ‘Ideal’ scores were 27% less likely to be diagnosed with cancer in the next ten years. These are NCD’s.

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How To Test For Insulin Resistance

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Insulin resistance is a core risk factor for the three leading causes of death: Cardiovascular Disease Cancer Dementia. Subscribe now Take cardiovascular disease, for example. With no insulin resistance and high APOB (LDL-C), the risk of future heart events increases by about 80%. N Engl J Med. J Clin Endocrinol Metab.